New Titles Digital June 2013 (arrived in May)

Downloadable audiobooks

Mom & me & Mom (OverDrive audiobook), Maya Angelou

For the first time, Maya Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence — a presence absent during much of Angelou's early life.

Living together (OverDrive audiobook), Alan Ayckbourn

In the second "battle" of Ayckbourn's celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests, we rejoin the family weekend, this time hearing the events in the living room, where Norman gets drunk on homemade dandelion wine — and all hell breaks loose.

Ayres on the air. 2 (OverDrive audiobook), Pam Ayres

More anecdotes, poems and sketches from one of the nation's most popular poets.

Ayres on the air. 3 (OverDrive audiobook), Pam Ayres

A third selection of verses, stories and sketches from the much-loved poet and comedian.

Ayres on the air. 4 (OverDrive audiobook), Pam Ayres

These four brand new shows, made up of a delightful mix of poems, personal stories and sketches, are themed around the seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

First family (OverDrive audiobook), David G. Baldacci

Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them - and the line between friend and foe impossible to define … or defend.

Hour game (OverDrive audiobook), David G. Baldacci

Private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are hired to prove a man's innocence in a burglary and become embroiled in a frantic search for a serial killer.

Your dog : the owner's manual : hundreds of secrets, surprises, and solutions for raising a happy, healthy dog (OverDrive audiobook), Marty Becker

Through surprising facts, moving stories and tested solutions, the veterinarian expert from "Good Morning America" and "The Dr. Oz Show" gives every dog owner the secrets to raising a healthy, well-behaved dog.

Grave consequences (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa Tawn Bergren

As Cora's European tour with her newfound family takes her through Austria, France, and Italy, an unseen enemy trails close behind, but the most danger Cora faces may be a forbidden love.

Guy Langman, crime scene procrastinator (OverDrive audiobook), Josh. Berk

Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.

Whitethorn Woods (OverDrive audiobook), Maeve Binchy

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems and housing estates. But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes and criss-crossed with paths; and there's St Ann's Well, where generations have come to pray or make wishes or just to look back at the pretty little town.

Black heart (OverDrive audiobook), Holly Black

Cassel Sharpe knows he's been used as an assassin, but he's trying to put all that behind him. He's trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He's trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he's trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he's been raised to believe the government is the enemy.

Red glove (OverDrive audiobook), Holly Black

Following the revelation that Cassel Sharp is able to transform anyone into something else, living or dead, both the FBI and the mafia-like Worker Families are interested in utilizing his special talents. Unsure where to turn, afraid that he has a black heart and cannot choose to do good, Cassel wavers from confidence in his conning abilities to fear of the lengths his family will go to use him.

An apple from Eden (OverDrive audiobook), Emma Blair

Divided by class, wealth and religion, two Scottish families could not live more different lives. However, as the Great War fades from memory and discontent seeps in, both the Seatons and the Flynns grow restless and allow temptation to gain hold…

War dog (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Booth

Well-trained and obedient, Jet is Fred Parry's perfect companion on his night-time poaching raids. But when Fred is caught and thrown into prison, nobody wants Jet. Nobody, that is, except an army officer. It is autumn 1939 and Britain is at war. Will Jet survive — and will Fred Parry ever find his beloved dog again?

Back of beyond (OverDrive audiobook), C. J. Box

Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behaviour with his department, he's in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Cody's determined to find his killer.

Secrets from the past (OverDrive audiobook), Barbara Taylor Bradford

A glittering new novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession and redemption from the master storyteller. Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her famous father's footsteps. But when he dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to reassess her life. In search of the truth about her father, her family and her own life, Serena begins a desperate quest to uncover a story from decades earlier.

Marriage, and other acts of charity (OverDrive audiobook), Kate Braestrup

From helping a newlywed couple make amends after their first fight to preparing herself for her second marriage, Braestrup offers her insights and experiences on what it truly means to share your life with someone, from the first kiss to the last straw, for better or for worse.

The white angel (OverDrive audiobook), Ed. Breslin

She looked like an angel, but no man or woman ever killed more ruthlessly or enjoyed it more. Killing her was Sam Borne's next assignment. To succeed he'd have to use every fighting skill he learned as a commando in Vietnam… and as a ninja assassin. But even his superb training might not be enough to save his life when he is face-to-face with a woman so beautiful that he wants her love… as much as he wants her dead.

Death on the Downs : a Fethering mystery (OverDrive audiobook), Simon Brett

It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. No, what upset her was the human skeleton she discovered in the barn in which she took shelter. So begins the second investigation for strait-laced Carole and her laid-back neighbour, Jude.

Lies beneath (OverDrive audiobook), Anne Greenwood. Brown

As the only brother in a family of mermaids living in Lake Superior, Calder White is expected to seduce Lily, the daughter of the man believed to have killed the mermaids' mother, but he begins to fall in love with her just as Lily starts to suspect the legends about the lake are true.

Betsy's return (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Relive the glory of a Pennsylvania canal town through the eyes of those who ministered to the needs of the workers.

Goodbye to yesterday (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Instead of experiencing newlywed bliss, Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. When Luke Stoltzfus loses his job at a furniture store in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, he is given an opportunity to learn.

The hope of spring (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Meredith Stoltzfus struggles to recover from almost losing her baby and to manage without her husband, Luke, while a young man found beaten in a bus station is still unresponsive, despite the prayers of one of his nurses.

Kelly's chance (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Life for Kelly McGregor is a daily drudge of driving her overbearing father's mules along Pennsylvania's Lehigh Canal. She dreams of one day owning an art gallery where her own drawings and paintings are on display. But these dreams don't include marriage … not after seeing what her father has done to her mother.

Sarah's choice (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Widowed Sarah Turner has her hands full, raising three young children, tending the lock on the canal, baking bread, and washing clothes for boatmen. Although she's not looking for love, she's vowed not to lose her heart to a boatman. Yet she didn't count on meeting Captain Elias Brooks.

The silence of winter (OverDrive audiobook), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Meredith longs to hear the sound of her husband's voice, to know that he arrived safely in Indiana, and to share her big news. Instead of the call she's waiting for, Meredith receives news that tears her heart to shreds and leaves her in a dark pit of despair.

Blood diamonds: tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones (OverDrive audiobook), Greg. Campbell

The diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. Blood Diamonds is the gripping story of how diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry — institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers Cartel — have allowed it to happen.

The gate thief (OverDrive audiobook), Orson Scott Card

Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can't control him and they can't control him. He is far too powerful.

Breaking silence (OverDrive audiobook), Linda Castillo

When Chief of Police, Kate Burkholder, is called to a farm in the Amish community of Painter's Creek, nothing could prepare her for the horror and tragedy she encounters. Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, and his brother Abel, have drowned in the hog pit leaving four children as orphans. As the case deepens, Kate develops a bond with the children. The events surrounding the deaths puzzle her — something doesn't feel right.

Gone missing (OverDrive audiobook), Linda Castillo

Investigating the disappearance of an Amish teenager, chief of police Kate Burkholder and state agent John Tomasetti stumble on a dead body at the same time another girl goes missing, and later discover sinister links to numerous cold cases.

Falling angels (OverDrive audiobook), Tracy Chevalier

Two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends, and even more unsuitably, become involved in the life of the gravedigger's muddied son.

Girl with a pearl earring (OverDrive audiobook), Tracy Chevalier

Griet, a tilemaker's daughter in 17th-century Holland, starts her first job as a servant the Vermeer household. Through Griet's eyes the story is told of the family, the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius.

The virgin blue (OverDrive audiobook), Tracy Chevalier

Ella Turner tries hard to fit in to the small, close-knit community of the French town that she has moved to. However, isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, with heart-wrenching results.

Spoiled : a novel (OverDrive audiobook), Heather. Cocks

When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.

Planet out of the past (OverDrive audiobook), James Lincoln Collier

Char, Weddy, and Nuell are excited over their discovery on this strange planet Pleisto, but also terrified, for the leader of their expedition, Professor Joher, has disappeared. They befriend a wounded hunter and hope that he will lead them to the professor. Char is thrilled to have the chance to study prehistoric humans so closely, but he is disturbed: by the violence of everyday life on Pleisto, by its uncomfortable similarity to life on Earth, and by his own feelings of competition and aggression.

When the stars begin to fall (OverDrive audiobook), James Lincoln Collier

Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

9 dragons (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Connelly

The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquor store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad — a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S. — his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.

Live long, finish strong (OverDrive audiobook), Gloria Copeland

Gloria Copeland believes the Bible teaches that God desires for every Christian to live a healthy life well into their hundreds. Here she presents a scripturally sound programme for following God's path to a happy, healthy lifestyle.

All that remains (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Chief Medical Examiner Scarpetta is unable to determine the cause of death. Then the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America goes missing.

Blow fly (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into some baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.

Body of evidence (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a reclusive author and discovers that being a coroner is much more than laboratory work as she becomes involved in a dangerous criminal investigation.

Book of the dead (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. She moves to South Carolina in the hope of a quieter life, but then a series of violent murders begins.

Cruel and unusual (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

11:05 p.m. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair. Three hours after young Eddie Heath goes out to buy a can of soup, his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta remembers that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly similar position.

Hornet's nest (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, but she finds it hard to accept that a rookie reporter, Brazil, should ride on patrol with her as she investigates a series of murders where the killer paints his victims bright orange.

Portrait of a killer : Jack the Ripper — case closed (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell uses the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. Naming the killer as the artist, Walter Sickert, Cornwell details the evidence for this conclusion and reveals the reaction from a senior police officer.

Post-mortem (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Richmond, Virginia: a serial killer is on the loose. Dr Kay Scarpetta is called in to help track the killer.

Predator (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its heat to the humans who stalk the malls, & they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity & the means to do what she does best — persuading the dead to speak to her.

Red mist (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women: a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out — she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy.

Trace (OverDrive audiobook), Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Against her own judgement, Kay Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on the case involving the death of a 14 year-old girl. Soon Kay is investigating the probability that someone is after those closest to her.

Suspect (OverDrive audiobook), Robert Crais

Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner nine months earlier, LAPD cop Scott James is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Scott in an effort to track down his late partner's killer.

Wainwright : the biography (OverDrive audiobook), Hunter Davies

Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television series, Wainwright remained an intensely private person. This biography throws a surprising light on a man who has been an enigmatic and misunderstood person.

By the rivers of Babylon (OverDrive audiobook), Nelson DeMille

After a Concorde jet headed for a U.N. conference that will bring peace to the Middle East is brought down by a bomb, the occupants of the plane must make a stand against an army of Palestine commandos.

The gold coast (OverDrive audiobook), Nelson DeMille

Two men are propelled to an explosive collision: John Suttere, a Wall Street lawyer, and Frank Bellarosa, a Mafia don, and the story climaxes amid mystery and violence.

Spencerville (OverDrive audiobook), Nelson DeMille

Back from the Cold War, intelligence officer Keith Landry returns to his hometown of Spencerville, Ohio. Twenty-five years after their last encounter, Keith runs into his first love, Annie, now unhappily married to the town's chief of police - an abusive alcoholic. In his efforts to reclaim Annie, Keith will have to draw on all the skills of a violent lifetime.

The Talbot odyssey (OverDrive audiobook), Nelson DeMille

Talbot is a Russian mole in the CIA suspected of killing European agents. A shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets, leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out.

Word of honor (OverDrive audiobook), Nelson DeMille

A lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity — and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with him.

Nubs (OverDrive audiobook), Brian Dennis

The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.

Hello again : nine decades of radio voices (OverDrive audiobook), Simon Elmes

Two brothers (OverDrive audiobook), Ben Elton

Berlin 1920: two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance.

Betrayal (OverDrive audiobook), Karen Fenech

To save her son and people from a deadly enemy, Lady Katherine Stanfield marries her former betrothed, a man she'd betrayed but has never stopped loving. Katherine has never revealed her reason for the betrayal and now, five years later, believes her secret is safe. But someone won't let the past rest and now she must stop that "someone" because he wants Katherine and her new husband dead.

A fate totally worse than death (OverDrive audiobook), Paul Fleischman

In this horror novel parody, three self-centred members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

Z : a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (OverDrive audiobook), Therese Fowler

A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favour of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.

The Forsyte saga (OverDrive audiobook), John Galsworthy

Galsworthy's epic story chronicles the decline and fall of the Forsytes through almost fifty years of material triumph, emotional disaster and a terrible feud that splits them asunder.

Beautiful creatures (OverDrive audiobook), Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl.

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Beautiful darkness (OverDrive audiobook), Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl.

One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. A Caster and a Mortal can never truly be together. Every kiss is a curse. It is their curse now …

By starlight (OverDrive audiobook), Dorothy Garlock

Colton, Montana, 1931. Struggling through the Great Depression, Maddy Aldridge agrees to run an illegal speakeasy in order to save her family's mercantile store. How far are Maddy and Jack willing to go to keep their secrets? What happens when the truth finally comes out? With violence threatening to shatter their world, Maddy and Jack have only one chance to rekindle their love and trust for each other, one chance to claim a future together.

Mary Barton (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

Set in Manchester in the 1840s — a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation. Mary is a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal murder forces her to confront her true feelings and allegiances.

North and South (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

This novel is a study of the contrast between the values and habits of rural southern England and industrial northern England. The heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts force him to resign his Hampshire living and to move with his family to a northern city.

Ruth (OverDrive audiobook), Elizabeth Gaskell

The orphaned heroine Ruth is seduced then abandoned by wealthy Henry Bellingham. Shamed in society's eyes by her illegitimate son, yet rejecting the opportunity to marry her seducer, Ruth affirms that we are not bound to repeat our mistakes.

Eve and Adam (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate.

While recuperating after a car accident in Spiker Biotech's lush San Francisco facilities, sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker meets Solo Plissken, a very attractive, if off-putting boy her age who spent his life at Spiker Biotech. Like Evening, he's never questioned anything … until now. With the help of Solo, Evening uncovers secrets so big they could change the world completely.

Hettie of Hope Street (OverDrive audiobook), Annie Groves

A breathtaking tale set in 1920s Liverpool and London of one girl's determination to trace her roots, find true love and succeed in a world where obstacles lurk around every corner.

Get well soon (OverDrive audiobook), Julie Halpern

When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenaged girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.

Jumpstart to skinny (OverDrive audiobook), Bob Harper

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper features thirteen short-term rules that will supercharge weight loss. Taking any confusion or decision making out of the equation, he also provides a day-by-day plan for success, including body-toning "jumpstart moves" and deliciously slimming recipes specially designed for get-skinny needs.

A cat, a hat and a piece of string (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find another story. Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris' exceptional talent as a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns.

Chocolat (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

When Vivien Rocher arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolaterie directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces the newcomer's wares as the ultimate sin, and suddenly Vianne's shop-cum-cafe means that there is somewhere for secrets and grievances.

Gentlemen & players (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Who is Mole, the mysterious insider, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards violence — and perhaps, murder? And how can an old and half-forgotten scandal become the stone that brings down a giant?

The lollipop shoes (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

'Who died?' I said. 'Or is it a secret?' 'My mother, Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change…

Sleep, pale sister (OverDrive audiobook), Joanne Harris

Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken.

The Chicago way (OverDrive audiobook), Michael T. Harvey

Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived.

The Fifth Floor (OverDrive audiobook), Michael T. Harvey

Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City's answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in another page-turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicago's past. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple.

A separate country (OverDrive audiobook), Robert Hicks

In New Orleans after the Civil War, John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army-and one of its most tragic figures-struggles with his inability to admit his failures until those who taught him to love, and to be loved, transformed him.

Wolves in winter (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa Hilton

Italy, 1492. Daughter to a Nordic mother and Spanish father, Mura has been tutored in both Arabic learning and the ancient myth cycles of the north. But her widower father has been arrested by the Inquisition, and Mura is sold as a slave, eventually belonging to the notorious Tigress of Forli, Countess Caterina Sforza. Beautiful, ruthless and intelligent, the Countess is fascinated by Mura's arcane knowledge and she becomes a potent weapon in the Machiavellian intrigues of the Renaissance court.

Granny (OverDrive audiobook), Anthony Horowitz

12 year old Jordan Warden isn't happy. He has rich, uncaring parents and is virtually a prisoner in the huge family mansion. Worst of all though, is his granny: both physically repulsive and horrible mean. Joe starts to suspect that Granny has unpleasant designs on him. But what are they and how can he foil them?

Mr. and Mrs. Bunny detectives extraordinaire (OverDrive audiobook), Polly Horvath

Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.

Backseat saints (OverDrive audiobook), Joshilyn Jackson

Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As 'Mrs. Ro Grandee' she's trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy — one who shares her past and knows her future.

Death comes to Pemberley (OverDrive audiobook), P. D. James

The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable, until Lydia Wickham — Elizabeth's younger, unreliable sister — stumbles out of a chaise screaming that her husband has been murdered.

Mariana (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. Now that she's at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason. As if Greywethers were a portal between worlds, she finds herself transported into 17th century England, becoming Mariana.

The rose garden (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

When Eva Ward moves to an old house on the Cornish coast, she discovers hidden pathways, mysterious voices, and ghosts of the past.

Season of Storms (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

In the early 1900s, in the elegant, isolated villa Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D'Ascanio lived for Celia Sands, his muse and his mistress. But the night before she was to take the stage in the leading role, Celia disappeared.

The shadowy horses (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

With its dark legends and passionate history, the windswept shores of Scotland were an archaeologist's dream. Verity Grey was thrilled by the challenge of uncovering an ancient Roman campsite in a small Scottish village. But as soon as she arrived, Verity felt danger in the air.

Sophia's secret (OverDrive audiobook), Susanna Kearsley

When bestselling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. As Sophia's memories draw Carrie more deeply into the intrigue of 1708, she discovers a captivating love story lost in time.

The gift of an ordinary day (OverDrive audiobook), Katrina Kenison

The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition — boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place and a slower pace, in a small New England town.

The history of now (OverDrive audiobook), Daniel M. Klein

Small, almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. Laced through a narrative of one recent year in Grandville's history are stories that reach back to a 17th century family in Rotterdam, and 18th century migration by a farmer's lonely son in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a 19th century underground railway journey by a gifted runaway slave.

Team human (OverDrive audiobook), Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan.

Residing in New Whitby, Maine, a town founded by vampires trying to escape persecution, Mel finds her negative attitudes challenged when her best friend falls in love with one, another friend's father runs off with one, and she herself is attracted to someone who tries to pass himself off as one.

The world is bigger now : an American journalist's release from captivity in North Korea : a remarkable story of faith, family, and forgiveness (OverDrive audiobook), Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey.

For the first time, the author, a young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea, tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. She explains in unforgettable detail what it was like to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she knew it. This is the story of faith and love and a personal conviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours.

The silence of murder (OverDrive audiobook), Dandi Daley Mackall

Seventeen-year-old Hope Long's life revolves around her brother Jeremy. So when Jeremy is accused of killing the town's beloved baseball coach, Hope's world begins to unravel. As she works to prove his innocence — joined by her best friend T.J. and the sheriff's son, Chase — Hope uncovers secrets about the murder, the townspeople, her family, and herself.

The haunting (OverDrive audiobook), Margaret Mahy

The family of Barney's dead mother is aware that there is something special about this particular boy. As he resigns himself to being haunted again, his sister and brother set out to discover the reason behind his supernatural attraction.

The pirates mixed up voyage (OverDrive audiobook), Margaret Mahy

This hilarious adventure story features Captain Wafer and his fellow pirates. When the pirates kidnap a famous inventor they sail into no end of trouble. Unable to read, they land at the wrong island and, realizing the perils of illiteracy, enrol at the academy of the dreaded Dr Silkwood.

Death and the lit chick : a St. Just mystery (OverDrive audiobook), G. M. Malliet

Chick lit mystery writer Kimberlee Kalder is the guest of honour at an exclusive writers' conference in Scotland. But jealousy and resentment are soon replaced with shock when she is found dead. It's up to Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just to track down the true killer in a castle full of cagey mystery connoisseurs who live and breathe malicious murder and artful alibis.

White bones (OverDrive audiobook), Graham Masterton

On an isolated farm in southern Ireland, a decades-old grave houses the dismembered bones of eleven women. Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire of the Irish Gardai is used to bloodshed, but these white bones speak of unimaginable butchery. As more and more victims are ritualistically murdered, she finds that she must solve an ancient mystery.

Atonement (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

Black dogs (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a mesmerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.

The child in time (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

A young couple have their child snatched from them and are driven apart by despair.

The innocent (OverDrive audiobook), Ian McEwan

The novel takes place in 1955-56 Berlin at the beginning of the Cold War and centres on the joint CIA/MI6 operation to build a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Russian sector to tap the phone lines of the Soviet High Command.

C. S. Lewis : a life (OverDrive audiobook), Alister E. McGrath

The recent Narnia films have inspired a resurgence of interest in C. S. Lewis, the Oxford academic, popular theologian and, most famously, creator of the magical world of Narnia — and this authoritative new biography, published to mark the 50th anniversary of Lewis's death, sets out to introduce him to a new generation.

Crash (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa McMann

If what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode… and nine body bags in the snow. The vision is everywhere-on billboards, television screens, windows-and she's the only one who sees it. In this riveting start to a gripping series from "New York Times "bestselling author Lisa McMann, Jules has to act-and act fast-to keep her vision from becoming reality.

Cryer's Cross (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa McMann

Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.

Dead to you (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa McMann

Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.

Island of silence (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa McMann

As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.

The Unwanteds (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa McMann

In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.

The Borgias : the hidden history (OverDrive audiobook), G. J. Meyer

Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu.

Any minute (OverDrive audiobook), Joyce Meyer

Sarah Harper's desire to succeed in her career too often leaves little time for her husband, son, and daughter. One cold, rainy, autumn morning, all of that changes when Sarah's car plunges off a bridge and into a river. As rescuers search desperately for her body, Sarah's spirit is still very much alive. What she discovers on the other side transforms everything about Sarah's view of life past, present, and future.

Winnie-the-Pooh (OverDrive audiobook), A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Come with us to an enchanted place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be.

Little foxes (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Morpurgo

Bullied at school, nagged in Aunty May's tenth-floor council flat, there's only one place Billy feels really alive — in the wilderness by the canal. There he watches a cygnet on the water and protects a family of fox cubs as they grow towards maturity. Then his secret place is discovered, and the fox family decimated. Unwanted, unloved, Billy and the last fox run for their lives.

Waiting for Anya (OverDrive audiobook), Michael Morpurgo

A boy living in a Pyrennean village under German occupation becomes involved in a network which helps Jews escape to Spain.

The Knights' tales collection (OverDrive audiobook), Gerald Morris

Relates the adventures of the knights of King Arthur's court.

Under the hammer (OverDrive audiobook), John Mortimer

Ben and Maggie uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding priceless works of art.

The thief (OverDrive audiobook), Fuminori Nakamura

The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can't refuse.

The blue boa (OverDrive audiobook), Jenny Nimmo

A dark secret is emerging from Bloor's Academy — a boy was once lost in the attics and never seen again. Charlie Bone is intrigued, but he has problems of his own: Uncle Paton has disappeared.

Living Oprah (OverDrive audiobook), Robyn Okrant

What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions and guidance delivered via her television show, her Web site, and her magazine.

Deadly housewives (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky … [et al]

Wisteria Lane has nothing on these grandest dames of mystery … In the expert hands of two of the mystery world's top storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of meddling mothers-in-law, creepy neighbours, cheating husbands, fickle female friends, careers left behind, out-of-control kids, steamy sex, and much, much more in this thrilling collection of never-before-published stories!

Deadlock (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky

Deadlock, V.I. Warshawski's second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder — this time the "accidental death" of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V.I.'s beloved cousin, who fell — or was pushed — off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago's busy waterfront.

Indemnity only (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky

V.I. has been hired by the vice-president of one of Chicago's biggest banks to find the girlfriend of his son. However, what should have been a simple job has turned gruesome. Someone is dead, lies have been told, and threats have been made.

Killing orders (OverDrive audiobook), Sara Paretsky

Feisty Chicago private eye Vic "V.I." Warshawski is used to getting mixed up in complicated cases but when three million dollars in share certificates are stolen from a Dominican priory, she really doesn't want to get involved. Because agreeing to investigate would mean doing a favour for Aunt Rosa, the priory's treasurer, and Vic has never forgiven Rosa for something she did a long time ago.

11th hour (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker.

Miracle on the 17th green (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

Struggling with a job he despises, a marriage grown cold, and the conviction that his life has been worthless, golfer Travis McKinley finds himself in a whirlwind of inexplicable success and actually makes the Senior Tour where a miracle occurs on the 17th green.

Nevermore (OverDrive audiobook), James Patterson

In the beginning, there was Maximum Ride. A girl. A fighter. A leader. A superhuman with a mission to save the world. She's gone to the ends of the earth seeking her destiny. And now, the end isn't near. It's here.

Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat and obsession (OverDrive audiobook), Julie Powell

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.

The quietness (OverDrive audiobook), Alison Rattle

When fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of 19th-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in. Meanwhile, lonely and unloved sixteen-year-old Ellen is delighted when her handsome, charming cousin Jacob is sent to live with her family. Soon both girls' lives become irrevocably entwined.

The butterfly tiara (OverDrive audiobook), Gwyneth Rees

Ava puts on a beautiful trapeze outfit with an amazing butterfly tiara and is transported to a travelling circus. Ava loves the bright lights and the beautiful costumes, but she's worried about a baby elephant that is being trained to perform tricks.

Cosmo and the great witch escape (OverDrive audiobook), Gwyneth Rees

Cosmo the witch-cat is delighted that evil Sybil — the most terrible of witches — is safely in prison. In fact, she's even been fitted with a special tag, which means that if she tries to escape she will be turned into a frog. But then mysterious goings-on are reported on Witch News. Baby witches are being visited by strange midwives and having their toenails clipped and stolen. Cosmo is sure something sinister is afoot. Could a highly wily witch be brewing a spectacularly spooky spell?

Cosmo and the magic sneeze (OverDrive audiobook), Gwyneth Rees

Cosmo has always wanted to be a witch-cat, just like his father, so when he passes the special test he's really excited. He can't wait to use his magic sneeze to help Sybil the witch mix her spells.

Cosmo and the secret spell (OverDrive audiobook), Gwyneth Rees

When his brothers and sisters are accidentally turned into frogs, Cosmo the witch-cat tries to turn them back, but they are kidnapped by a stranger who has other plans for them.

Absolution gap (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

The first wave of Inhibitors has sent war veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees into hiding. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety — or draw down its darkest enemy.

Chasm City (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

In a city overrun by a virus that attacks both man and machine, an agent pursues a lowlife postmortal-and uncovers a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.

Redemption ark (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

Accidentally triggering the Inhibitors, alien killing machines designed to seek out and destroy all intelligent life, all humankind in the twenty-sixth century faces certain annihilation.

Revelation space (OverDrive audiobook), Alastair Reynolds

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer and greater than anyone imagines.

The wolf gift (OverDrive audiobook), Anne Rice

A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.

Alone on the ice : the greatest survival story in the history of exploration (OverDrive audiobook), David Roberts

Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.

The sky beneath my feet (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa Samson

Being married to a saint isn't what it's cracked up to be. While "St. Rick" waits for an epiphany, Beth will have to figure out what to do with herself and their teenage sons, possibly for the rest of her life. When their son is caught with drugs, Beth embarks on an ambitious road trip that turns into something nearly surreal.

Ender's world : fresh perspectives on the SF classic Ender's game (OverDrive audiobook), edited by Orson Scott Card

In Ender's World almost two dozen writers of science fiction, fantasy, and young adult books offer new perspectives on the 1985 novel, along with insights gleaned from other Ender stories that fit within the Ender's Game chronology.

Don't Go (OverDrive audiobook), Lisa Scottoline

Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.

Simple times : crafts for poor people (OverDrive audiobook), Amy Sedaris

Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows us that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

The 10-step stress solution (OverDrive audiobook), Neil Shah

Do you feel overwhelmed by work or life in general? Having trouble coping with too many demands on your time and energy? Well you're not alone!

Off season (OverDrive audiobook), Anne Rivers Siddons

For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly — happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does … in loss.

Dead romantic (OverDrive audiobook), C. J. Skuse

Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when she's rejected at her new college party, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-style, but can she make him love her?

Nights in Rodanthe (OverDrive audiobook), Nicholas Sparks

After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, forty-five-year-old Adrienne Willis reconsiders her entire life, until a trip to Rodanthe in North Carolina's outer banks leads to an encounter with successful surgeon Paul Flanner.

Chasing Lincoln's killer (OverDrive audiobook), James L. Swanson

Recounts the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and follows the intensive twelve-day search for him and his accomplices.

Hotels, hospitals, and jails (OverDrive audiobook), Anthony Swofford

In these searing, courageous pages, Anthony Swofford struggles to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide, after nearly ending it, what his life can and should become.

Cat magic (OverDrive audiobook), Ruth Symes

Bella Donna's favourite cat has always been Pegatha, who loves to sleep on her bed and follow Bella around like a little shadow. But then Pegatha begins to behave very strangely, and soon Bella realises that someone has cast a spell on her! But why would anyone bewitch a cat?

Coven Road (OverDrive audiobook), Ruth Symes

Bella Donna's wanted to be a witch her whole life, and the only thing she wants more is to find a family to adopt her. No one seems quite right for her until the day Lilith arrives and Bella knows immediately that Lilith might be the one to make both her secret wishes come true.

Too many spells (OverDrive audiobook), Ruth Symes

Bella Donna appears to be a regular girl at a regular school with her regular friends, but she has a secret — she is really a young witch!

Witchling (OverDrive audiobook), Ruth Symes

Bella Donna is a witchling — a young witch who must keep her powers a secret, and only use magic when she's at home in the enchanted Coven Road. But it's hard to stick to the rules when magic is such fun.

Frozen solid (OverDrive audiobook), James M. Tabor

A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus and Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action.

The perfume collector (OverDrive audiobook), Kathleen Tessaro

'Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D'Orsey and it is our duty to inform you that you are named as the chief beneficiary in her will. We request your presence at our offices at your earliest convenience, so that we may go through the details of your inheritance.' There is only one problem: Grace has never heard of Eva D'Orsey.

Mojo (OverDrive audiobook), Tim Tharp

A boy who feels powerless in his own life sets out to investigate the mystery of a missing high school girl in his town, who attends an elite private high school very unlike his own.

The invisible girls (OverDrive audiobook), Sarah Thebarge

After nearly dying of breast cancer in her twenties, Sarah Thebarge fled her successful career, her Ivy League education, and a failed relationship on the East Coast and started over in Portland, Oregon. She was hoping to quietly pick up the pieces of her broken life, but instead she met Hadhi and her daughters, and set out on an adventure she'd never anticipated.

The Kashmir shawl (OverDrive audiobook), Rosie Thomas

Spanning decades and moving from the stark beauty of the Welsh landscape to the Himalayas and Kashmir, this is a story of bravery, courage and love.

Home run (OverDrive audiobook), Travis Thrasher

Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win, but off the field, he's spiralling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment — one mistake — changes everything.

The letter (OverDrive audiobook), Marie. Tillman

In 2003, Pat Tillman, serving in the US Army, hastily wrote a "just in case" letter to his wife, Marie. When he returned on leave before his departure to Afghanistan, he placed the letter on top of their bedroom dresser. For months it sat there, sealed and ever-present. Then, in April 2004, Marie's worst nightmare came true.

The Prime Minister (OverDrive audiobook), Anthony Trollope

Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England — a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it — is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. A novel of social, sexual and domestic politics, The Prime Minister raises one of the most enduring questions in government — whether a morally scrupulous gentleman can make an effective leader.

The burden of proof (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

Defense lawyer Alejandro "Sandy" Stern seeks the truth behind his wife's suicide and the federal case against the person who is his brother-in-law as well as his most troublesome client.

The laws of our fathers (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction.

Limitations (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

At fifty-nine, George Mason has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, he begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply?

Ordinary heroes (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

Stewart Dubinsky plunges into the mystery of his family's secret history when he discovers his deceased father's wartime letters to his former fiancée, revealing his court-martial and imprisonment during World World II.

Personal injuries (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

An FBI operation is held to catch a group of corrupt judges in high places. The central figure is a crooked lawyer who bribed judges on his cases. Nabbed by the IRS for tax evasion, he agrees to be wired and serve as bait in return for a reduced sentence.

Pleading guilty (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

When Gage & Grisell's star litigator suddenly disappears along with $5.6 million, the assignment of locating both goes to Mack Malloy. His search takes him into the inner sanctum of his firm and through the shadows of the city.

Presumed innocent (OverDrive audiobook), Scott Turow

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled and he stands accused of the crime.

Black diamond (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

France's Perigord region is the home of the exquisite black truffle, and at five thousand euros a kilo, it's a treasured local asset. When reports come in that this unique delicacy is being adulterated with a cheaper Chinese version, Bruno is asked to investigate the scam. An intriguing mystery leavened with charm and humour, informed by a deep love of French rural life and a broad knowledge of France, past and present.

Bruno, chief of police (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

When an old North African man is found viciously murdered — a swastika carved in his chest — the obvious conclusion is that the killing must be racist. But Captain Bruno Courreges isn't convinced, and suspects it may have its roots in that most tortured period of French history — the Second World War.

The crowded grave (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

The dark vineyard (OverDrive audiobook), Martin Walker

Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Bruno is pulled from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis to where a large barn and the fields surrounding it are ablaze. Someone is determined to stop the proposed industrial-scale wine-producing operation scheme and is prepared to go to any lengths — including murder — to do so.

When I stop talking, you'll know I'm dead : useful stories from a persuasive man (OverDrive audiobook), Jerry Weintraub

Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Jerry chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation.

An imaginative experience (OverDrive audiobook), Mary Wesley

A traveller on a train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself, to ignore the desperation it recognises in others.

Video Rose (OverDrive audiobook), Jacqueline Wilson

Rose loves watching videos and sits in front of the telly all the time. So when the video player breaks, it's a total nightmare! But then a very mysterious repair man comes to fix it. He gives Rose the power to forward and rewind her life and then Rose sees what really happens to someone who spends all their time in front of the TV.

Congo dawn (OverDrive audiobook), Jeanette Windle

Former Marine lieutenant Robin Duncan has never had trouble telling good guys from bad. Assigned to a security team that is charged with tracking down an insurgent killer, things are further complicated for Robin when she has to face a man who broke her trust years before.

The death of sweet mister (OverDrive audiobook), Daniel Woodrell

Peels the lid back on a dysfunctional Missouri family as infidelity threatens to consume their world in violence and terror.

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Brief encounters: tales of fast love (OverDrive e-book)

Sexy random opportunities so often arise when a girl is on the move with things to do and places to see. Original erotica stories of women who took a chance to misbehave, from Rose de Fer, Primula Bond, Kathleen Tudor, Mina Murray and many more.

Easy-to-build outdoor projects: 29 projects for your yard and garden (OverDrive e-book)

Build Your Own Backyard Getaway! From Adirondack chairs and porch swings, to birdhouses and potting benches, Easy-to-Build Outdoor Projects is filled with the types of practical and attractive projects woodworkers love to build.

The Izu dancer and other stories (OverDrive e-book)

Moosewood Restaurant simple suppers: favorite timesaving recipes for the weeknight table (OverDrive e-book), the Moosewood Collective ; photography Jim Scherer ; food stylist Catrine Kelty

The Moosewood Collective goes back to basics with Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers to deliver fresh, imaginative, and quickly prepared dishes for the weeknight table that are also delicious and reliable.

New recipes from Moosewood Restaurant (OverDrive e-book), Moosewood Collective staff.

For almost 30 years, Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has been at the epicentre of America's evolving vegetarian cuisine. From soups and sandwiches to main dishes, this spirited collection of creative and accessible recipes will liven up your table.

Strikeforce lightning (OverDrive e-book), Mark Aitken

Former special forces captain Gerry Gallen was enjoying running a cattle ranch but when he was asked to lead a team to Jordan to retrieve his war-time sergeant, he agreed. Now hunted, beaten and trapped, Gerry Gallen is a man running two races. Can he break clear before lightning strikes?

Before we were free (OverDrive e-book), Julia Alvarez

In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Dancing to the flute (OverDrive e-book), Manisha Jolie Amin

Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. With all the energy and colour of India and its people, Dancing to the Flute is a magical, heart-warming story of a community's joys and sorrows, the nature of friendship and the astonishing transformative powers of music.

Super splosh (OverDrive e-book), Scoular Anderson

Freddy Frogpurse has come to his Great Uncle Sneezer’s house to learn how to be a wizard. His house dragon, Odds and Ends, nags at him to practise more, but Freddy just wants to have fun — and eat Tingle Toast.

The Clumsies make a mess of the airport (OverDrive e-book), Sorrel Anderson

A mix up at security sees the Clumsies end up in the wrong suitcase and running amok in Departures

The original Lebanese cookbook (OverDrive e-book), Dawn Anthony

This cookbook is a traditional and authentic collection of 150 Lebanese recipes passed down from mother to daughter for generations, with popular favourites such as Kibbi, Tabbouleh, Hoummus and Baba Ghannouj and other delicious dishes including a generous selection of meat-free and dairy-free meals.

Sharing Sam (OverDrive e-book), Katherine Applegate

When Sam asks her to the Valentine's Day dance, Alison is elated until she finds out that her best friend, Isabella Cates-Lopez, has fallen for Sam, too… and Isabella is dying. Now Alison wants Isabella's last days to be her happiest ever — even if she and Sam have to hide their love.

Being Henry David (OverDrive e-book), Cal Armistead

Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away.

Once again a bride (OverDrive e-book), Jane Ashford

Alec Wylde was shocked by his uncle's untimely death, and even more shocked to encounter his uncle's beautiful young widow. Now clouds of suspicion are gathering, and charges of murder hover over Charlotte's head. He could be her only hope, or her next victim.

Poison tree (OverDrive e-book), Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Alysia has quickly moved to a position of responsibility in SingleEarth, working among shapeshifters and witches who fight against vampires, but she is hiding secret alliances that could put her fellow mediators at risk.

Promises to keep (OverDrive e-book), Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Jay Marinitch, a young vampire hunter, may be Earth's best hope for thwarting the rise of a vampire-controlled slave empire called Midnight, despite his fear that those who question his worth may be right.

Hikikomori and the rental sister (OverDrive e-book), Jeff Backhaus

Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. Desperate to salvage their life together, his wife hires Megumi, a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon, to lure Thomas back into the world.

Over the rainbow (OverDrive e-book), Meredith Badger

Elly's grandmother whisks her away from the human school she was attending and enrols her in a prestigious fairy academy in the capital of Fairydom, Rainbowville, where Elly discovers that she might not hate being a fairy, after all.

Undercover (OverDrive e-book), Meredith Badger

Every time Elly goes to a new fairy school, it ends in disaster, but this week, Elly is going undercover at her friend Jess's School. It turns out that there's something fishy going on. All the girls are into fairies, and Elly smells magic. Is she really the only fairy at South Street School?

Friends and rivals (OverDrive e-book), Tilly Bagshawe

For everyone who loves Jilly Cooper, Penny Vincenzi, Tasmina Perry and Louise Bagshawe. As three women try to navigate a backstabbing world of infamy, desire and fortune, will they be tempted to betray the people they hold dearest?

Shift (OverDrive e-book), Em Bailey

Olive Corbett doesn't need the drama of that creepy new girl Miranda trying to make it with her ex-friends. As Miranda emerges from the shadows, Olive begins to realise something sinister going is on. But who would believe Olive? She does have a habit of letting her imagination run away with her… Shift is a sinister psychological thriller that tears through the themes of identity, loss and toxic friendship.

The Baker Street Boys (OverDrive e-book), Brian Ball

Mr. Holmes is in Switzerland engaged in a deadly duel of wits with Professor Moriarty so the Baker Street Irregulars have to rely on their own wits. It all began — and ended — in Trump's Music Hall, the theatre where Sparrow was employed, where the star of the show was The Amazing Marvin, Hypnotist Extraordinaire and Mentalist Supreme! But Marvin had a secret and sinister agenda…

Dead River (OverDrive e-book), Cyn Balog

Remembering Lionsville (OverDrive e-book), Bronwyn Bancroft

Renowned artist Bronwyn Bancroft tells her inspiring story of growing up in country New South Wales. A unique picture book for the whole family.

Blood loss (OverDrive e-book), Alex Barclay

FBI agent Ren Bryce takes on her most heart-wrenching case yet when a father's work places his young daughter in terrible danger! But Ren has her own battles to fight. The lives of two young girls are in Ren's hands. But she might need to save herself before she can save them.

Shakespeare saved my life: ten years in solitary with the bard (OverDrive e-book), Laura Bates

Just as Larry Newton, one of the most notorious inmates at Indiana Federal Prison, was trying to break out of jail, Dr. Laura Bates was trying to break in. Now, a decade later, her Shakespeare in Shackles program has been lauded by academics and prison communities alike. A starkly engaging tale, one that will be embraced by anyone who has ever been changed by a book.

Be refreshed! (OverDrive e-book), Nick Beckman

We rebuild ourselves every day on a cellular level, so let's make sure we feed ourselves in the best possible way with the best possible food, water and thoughts, to allow the fullest expression of our being.

Peking to Paris (OverDrive e-book), Dina Bennett

Writing for every woman who's ever doubted herself and any man who's wondered what the woman travelling with him is thinking, Dina brings the reader with her as she deftly sidesteps rock-throwing Mongolians and locks horns with Russians left over from the Interpol era — not to mention getting a sandstorm facial and racing rabbits on a curvy country road. Come along for the ride with a dashboard diva.

Only in Spain (OverDrive e-book), Nellie Bennett

A foot-stamping, full-on firecracker of a travel memoir, crackling with energy, dance, gypsies, love, food and the occasional donkey. Nellie Bennett travelled to the other side of the world, to Seville, to learn flamenco. What she didn't realise is that flamenco is not a dance, it's a way of life. A witty, passionate story of romance and discovery.

The Berenstain Bears and the bad habit (OverDrive e-book), Stan & Jan Berenstain.

With the help of her family, Sister Bear breaks her habit of biting her nails.

The Berenstain Bears' trouble with money (OverDrive e-book), Stan & Jan Berenstain.

Brother and Sister Bear learn some important lessons about earning and spending money.

Final grave (OverDrive e-book), Nadja Bernitt

For Meri Ann Fehr, a detective with Florida's Sarasota Sheriff's Office, the troubling discovery of bones on a high plateau in Boise, Idaho could not have come at a worse time. They may or may not answer a fifteen-year-old mystery of her mother's disappearance.

Go Jojo go!: a little penguin on a big swim (OverDrive e-book), Tessa Bickford & Jennifer Castles.

Jojo the gentoo penguin was born on an island in the Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and Antarctica. From her nest she can see the beach, and she just can't wait to go to sea. 'Am I ready yet?' she asks. 'Not yet, little Jojo. You have to learn to swim.'

Furniture makeovers (OverDrive e-book), Barbara Blair

The book features 25 step-by-step techniques such as painting, staining, stencilling, dip dyeing, simple upholstery and distressing that can be applied to all different types of furniture, plus 30 stunning before & afters.

Kurt Vonnegut (OverDrive e-book), Kevin Alexander Boon

A biography of writer Kurt Vonnegut that describes his era, his major work, his life, and the legacy of his writing.

Blood on the tongue (OverDrive e-book), Stephen Booth

Marie Tennent seems simply to have curled into a fetal position in the freezing snow and remained there until her body was frozen over. And hers is not the only death the police have to contend with. Could the past be the only clue to present violence as an ice winter looks to get even chillier?

Dancing with the virgins (OverDrive e-book), Stephen Booth

Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry struggle to unravel a bizarre mystery involving the death of a young female cyclist, whose body is found in a remote region of England in the middle of a prehistoric ring of stones called the Nine Virgins.

All this could end (OverDrive e-book), Steph Bowe

What's the craziest thing your mum has asked you to do? Nina doesn't have a conventional family. Her family robs banks — even she and her twelve-year-old brother Tom are in on the act now. After yet another move and another new school, Nina is fed up and wants things to change.

Good Indian (OverDrive e-book), B. M. Bower

Wild-at-heart cowboy Grant Imsen has never taken a liking to big city life or civilization as a whole, for that matter. But when he meets Evadna Ramsey, a genteel visitor from New Jersey, everything changes in the blink of an eye. Is there any hope for this diametrically opposed duo to live happily ever after?

For hire (OverDrive e-book), Luke Bradbury

What does a London based gigolo do when his worlds start to collide? Find out in this saucy and eye-opening memoir. Things reach breaking point when Luke's new flatmates unwittingly uncover his secret profession, and worse, reveal it to a potential girlfriend, forcing Luke to take a long hard look at his life. Can he relinquish the glamour and wealth of escorting for the chance of a more stable lifestyle?

The corpse on the court (OverDrive e-book), Simon Brett

Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new man, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby/obsession of Real Tennis. But when one of Piers' friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances, Jude finds herself caught up in the police investigation.

Guns in the gallery: a Fethering mystery (OverDrive e-book), Simon Brett

Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. But what no one could have anticipated was that the evening would end in sudden, violent death.

The seduction of Emily (OverDrive e-book), Rachel Brimble

Since girlhood, Emily Darson has accepted that she will marry Nicholas, the son of her father's trusted business partner. Will Samson is a confidence trickster of the highest calibre and has come to Bath to exact vengeance on the man who destroyed his mother — the man Emily will soon marry. But from his first glimpse of the enemy's bewitching, spirited fiancée, Will's plan changes.

Hidden treasures (OverDrive e-book), Fern Britton

To her surprise, Helen finds herself the love-interest of two very different men: the kind, gentle, desperate-for-love-and-sex Simon, and the darkly enigmatic local historian Piran. Whilst Helen is getting to grips with her new life, her oldest and dearest friend, Penny, a hot-shot TV Producer, has decided that the village is the perfect setting for her new TV series. Will Helen embrace the future, or is it too difficult to let go of the past?

Deep betrayal (OverDrive e-book), Anne Greenwood Brown

As dead bodies start washing ashore, Lily and Calder realize someone's on a killing spree — and they fear it's either Calder's mermaid sisters or Lily's father.

The firstborn (OverDrive e-book), Conlan Brown

The Firstborn — three ancient religious orders gifted with the ability to see past, present and future — have formed a shaky truce for the first time since the death of Christ. But dangerous forces — both human and otherwise — are rising to destroy them.

Band-aid for a broken leg: being a doctor with no borders (and other ways to stay single) (OverDrive e-book), Damien Brown

Damien Brown is a twenty-nine-year-old Australian doctor, inexperienced but motivated by a strong desire to help, when he arrives in Angola — an impoverished, war-torn country in south west Africa — for a six-month posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres. It's his first stint with the organisation, and he thinks he's ready.

Shot, boom, score! (OverDrive e-book), Justin Brown

A hilarious story about a boy who is promised a Gamebox V3 by his dad if he scores 20 wickets in cricket and 10 tries in rugby, but is foiled at every turn by the class bully.

Betsy's return (OverDrive e-book), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God.

Sarah's Choice (OverDrive e-book), Wanda E. Brunstetter

Widowed Sarah Turner has her hands full, raising three young children, tending the lock on the canal, baking bread, and washing clothes for boatmen. Although she's not looking for love, she's vowed not to lose her heart to a boatman. Yet she didn't count on meeting Captain Elias Brooks.

Sock knitting master class (OverDrive e-book), Ann Budd

Work from the ground up with knitwear design: create your own socks. Sock Knitting Master Class showcases methods for designing and knitting creative socks, featuring signature elements and techniques from 16 top designers.

Nest: the art of birds (OverDrive e-book), Janine Burke

The presence of birds communicates the health of a place. When they're gone, it's as though there's a hole in the sky. Nest: The Art of Birds is a short education that encompasses celebration and theory, investigation and memoir, the familiar and the revelatory as surprising and enticing as any beautiful, intricately constructed nest.

First ladies (OverDrive e-book), Kay Burley

What happens when the power of love challenges the love of power? Suave PM Julian Jenson has just been re-elected but in private the cracks are starting to show. His wife Valerie is trim, tall, well educated but deeply unhappy — alcohol is becoming a trusted friend. Sally Simpson is a powerful editor of the bestselling magazine Celeb who can't wait to take her rightful place by Julian's side. Sexy TV reporter Isla McGovern has caught Julian's eye, and she will do anything (or anyone) to get to the top. When the three women meet, so begins a perfect storm, and only one can emerge as the First Lady.

The Carrie diaries (OverDrive e-book), Candace Bushnell

Before Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school.

Delphie and the magic ballet shoes (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bussell

Delphie's greatest dream is to become a ballerina, and she can't quite believe it when she is invited to join the new ballet school. But there's more to Madame Zarakova's than it at first seems and with the help of some very special ballet shoes, Delphie finds herself spinning into a whole new world

Delphie and the magic spell (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bussell

Delphie is getting ready to audition for the end of term ballet show but before she can even think about practising, her help is needed in Enchantia. Does Delphie hold the key to break the magic spell and unlock the secrets of the magical world?

Summer in Enchantia (OverDrive e-book), Darcey Bussell

One summer’s evening, Rosa is about to dance at an outdoor show when she feels a familiar tingling in her ballet shoes. Someone in Enchantia needs her — Rosa soon discovers that a band of pirates have stolen the King and Queen’s treasure!

Sewing for kids (OverDrive e-book), Alice Butcher

Introduces the craft of sewing and provides instructions for creating such toys and gifts as juggling balls, a yo-yo necklace, dolls, and a handbag.

Blood diamonds: tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones (OverDrive e-book), Greg Campbell

Blood Diamonds is the gripping story of how diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry — institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers Cartel — have allowed it to happen.

The Selection (OverDrive e-book), Kiera Cass

It's the chance of a lifetime - 17-year-old America Singer has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which the special few compete for gorgeous Prince Maxon's love. Rivalry within The Selection is fierce and not all of the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But what they don't know is that America has a secret — one which could throw the whole competition… and change her life forever.

All this talk of love (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Castellani

It's been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America and she sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out. But as Prima sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy — hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. An incandescent novel about sacrifice and hope, loss and love, myth and memory.

Hannah and Emil (OverDrive e-book), Belinda Castles

Emil and Hannah live their lives amid the turmoil of 20th-century history. All too briefly, they make a life in England before war strikes, and Emil, an enemy alien, is interned and then sent away. Hannah, determined to find him, prepares herself for a lonely and dangerous journey across the seas. A moving love story riven by the powerful currents of history — an inspiring story of courage, conviction, and love.

Dance-off! (OverDrive e-book), Harriet Castor

When dancers from the British National Ballet come to Cuddington Primary to teach the pupils a few moves, it's time to get grooving! But the Sleepover Club has a few moves of its own, particularly when their rivals, the M&Ms, start getting snotty!

My Antonia: my life with Harold Pinter (OverDrive e-book), Willa Cather

The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life, and certainly not his. In essence, it is a love story and as with many love stories, the beginning and the end, the first light and the twilight, are dealt with more fully than the high noon in between. The result is a marvellously insightful testimony to modern literature's most celebrated marriage, between the greatest playwright of the age and a beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer.

O pioneers! (OverDrive e-book), Willa Cather

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Night dreams (OverDrive e-book), Sandra Chastain

Shannon Summers has no idea why she's been summoned to the grand mountaintop estate of a very rich and very reclusive man. She has no interest in being swept up in the magnetic draw of the former international playboy Jonathan Dream — but fate has other plans.

Messy (OverDrive e-book), Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan.

Now that Brooke Berlin's caught a taste of fame she wants to launch a blog that will position her as the ultimate Hollywood insider. But she hardly has the time to write it herself… Enter Max McCormack who reluctantly agrees to play Brooke's ghost-blogger for an impressive salary. The site takes off, but how long can their lie last?

The winter hero (OverDrive e-book), James Lincoln Collier

Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.

The burial (OverDrive e-book), Courtney Collins

Twenty-two-year-old Jessie has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Henry, who wants a woman to allay his loneliness in a valley populated by embittered ex-soldiers. One catastrophic night turns Jessie's life on its head and she must flee for her life. But how do you bury the evidence when the evidence is part of yourself?

Not that tutu! (OverDrive e-book), Michelle Sinclair Colman

Taylor loved her tutu and wore it all the time, day and night. She wore it to school and she wore it in the pool, much to the mild annoyance and amusement of her friends and family. Will she ever give up that tutu?

Unplugged play: no batteries, no plugs, pure fun (OverDrive e-book), Bobbi Conner

Kids love to play. Here is a parent-friendly encyclopedia offering hundreds of battery-free, screen-free games and variations that stretch the imagination, spark creativity, and keep kids busy.

In the middle of the night (OverDrive e-book), Robert Cormier

A tragic accident twenty five years ago haunts Denny's father, and phone calls from a mystery caller every year, around the anniversary, affect the whole family. Denny answers the phone one afternoon and becomes involved with the caller who threatens revenge.

Tunes for bears to dance to (OverDrive e-book), Robert Cormier

Eleven-year-old Henry escapes his family's problems by watching the woodcarving of Mr. Levine, an elderly Holocaust survivor, but when Henry is manipulated into betraying his friend he comes to know true evil. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

We all fall down (OverDrive e-book), Robert Cormier

As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighbourhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.

Comeback (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back — but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney? Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising.

Deal me out (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

Taking care of business (OverDrive e-book), Peter Corris

Private investigator Cliff Hardy is no financial genius, but in this collection of hard-boiled detective stories he pursues white-collar criminals with the same doggedness he applies to his more downmarket villains.

The quantum universe: everything that can happen does happen (OverDrive e-book), Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. From entangled twins to the incredible double-slit experiment, The Quantum Universe will give every reader the most up-to-date picture of that amazing subatomic world, where thousands of years of physics must be rewritten completely.

Why does E=mc2 (and why should we care?) (OverDrive e-book), Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc2? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.

Midnight empire (OverDrive e-book), Andrew Croome

Young Australian computer programmer Daniel Carter has arrived at the heart of the American war machine the drone program at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs. Naive, untested, but keen to make a difference, he is plunged headlong into America's surreal battle against its enemies in the Middle East a battle fought at a distance of 7,000 miles from a city where nothing is real. It is a taut and at times terrifying vision of a world without frontiers, a novel about dangerous new realities and how they threaten to transform us.

Party time (OverDrive e-book), Fiona Cummings

Planning an extra-special sleepover for the school holidays, the Sleepover Club friends are banned from sleepovers after a class play disaster results in Kenny getting into a fight, a situation that compels the girls to work together to save their club.

Hippo says "Excuse me" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

Hippo demonstrates his good manners as he makes his way in crowded situations.

Mouse says "Sorry" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

As mouse rushes home to dinner, he apologizes for tracking mud everywhere he goes.

Penguin says "Please" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

Penguin learns to use good manners when asking for something.

Bear says "Thank you" (OverDrive e-book), Michael Dahl

Bear uses his manners while working on a craft project for his mom.

Lifelong landscape design (OverDrive e-book), Mary Palmer Dargan

Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden. It involves encouraging your community to be a well-rooted environment consisting of friends who share home-grown produce, walk in the neighbourhood, recycle, water harvest, compost and are watchful of each other's well-being.

A thousand days in Tuscany: a bittersweet adventure (OverDrive e-book), Marlena De Blasi

On a forgotten patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio collide, Marlena de Blasi settles with her Venetian husband, Fernando, in search of a new life. Yet it is the friendship of the mesmeric Barlozzo, a self-styled village chieftain of sorts, that leads them deep into the heart of Tuscany.

Palladio (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Dee

In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds solace in a young art student named John Wheelwright. In a triumph of literary ingenuity, Jonathan Dee weaves together the stories of this unforgettable pair, raising haunting questions about the sources of art, the pain of lost love, and whether it pays to have a conscience in our cynical age.

The privileges (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Dee

Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. As Cynthia, at home with the kids day after identical day, begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family's happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility.

A thousand pardons (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Dee

Forced back into the working world after her lawyer husband's downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, who needs her professional assistance.

Yesterday's spy (OverDrive e-book), Len Deighton

Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. It's time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy.

The Straw Men (OverDrive e-book), P. C. Doherty

January, 1381. Guests of the Regent, John of Gaunt, Brother Athelstan and Sir John Cranston have been attending a mystery play performed by the Straw Men, Gaunt's personal acting troupe, when the evening's entertainment is rudely interrupted by the sudden, violent deaths of two of Gaunt's VIP guests, their severed heads left on stage, leading Athelstan to tackle his most baffling case yet.

Do you mind if I put my hand on it? (OverDrive e-book), Mark Dolan

Mark Dolan meets the world's most extraordinary people. Looks aren't everything, but what if, like the owner of the world's biggest enhanced breasts, the man who turned himself into a cat or the seven-year-old who can bench-press his own bodyweight, they mean you are totally unique.

Alice Walker: The color purple and other works (OverDrive e-book), Mary Donnelly

A biography of writer Alice Walker that describes her era, her major work — The Color Purple, her life, and the legacy of her writing.

The sealed letter (OverDrive e-book), Emma Donoghue

Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. What begins as a loyal effort to help a friend explodes into a courtroom drama that rivals the Clinton affair, complete with stained clothing, accusations of adultery, counterclaims of rape, and a mysterious letter that could destroy more than one life. Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864.

Centre of gravity (OverDrive e-book), Ian Douglas

On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make the momentous decision that will seal his fate and the fate of humankind.

Earth strike (OverDrive e-book), Ian Douglas

There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point. But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundary — by total annihilation if necessary.

Singularity (OverDrive e-book), Ian Douglas

There is an unseen power in the universe — a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets. As humankind approaches the Singularity, when transcendence will be achieved through technology, contact will be made.

Talk to me: what the dead whisper in your ear (OverDrive e-book), Allison DuBois

The inspiration for the blockbuster TV series Medium shares in her own words how she communicates with the dead. She illustrates what she has learned with stories of readings that she has done for people who have lost loved ones.

Adultery and other choices (OverDrive e-book), Andre Dubus

A collection of nine short stories and a novella: a compassionate portrayal of man's journey from childhood to maturity.

Veronica (OverDrive e-book), Roger Duvoisin

Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humour and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.

Making laws for clouds (OverDrive e-book), Nick Earls

This summer is different because there's a new girl in town. It's different because she's Tanika Bell — occasional bus driver, regular optimist and, it turns out, woman of the world. But expecting life to play by the rules is like making laws for clouds.

Monica Bloom (OverDrive e-book), Nick Earls

Matt Sherman is in his final year of school. And he's ready to move onto bigger and better things. But from the moment he hears her voice over the fence, Matt knows he has to meet his neighbours' cousin, Monica Bloom. She's just flown in from Dublin ready for the start of school, but not at all ready, it turns out, for what the year holds.

Perfect skin (OverDrive e-book), Nick Earls

In a post-Duran Duran world, Jon, a laser-wielding skin specialist falls prey to the vicissitudes of email dating and faces up to being the lone parent of a baby girl, the Bean. Throw in a new running buddy — a woman with an accident-prone cat — and watch Jon's world spiral out of control.

Ralph Ellison: Invisible man (OverDrive e-book), Gerald Lyn Early

A biography of writer Ralph Ellison that describes his era, his major work — Invisible Man — his life, and the legacy of his writing.

Cook with love: the Pete Evans collection (OverDrive e-book), Pete Evans

Cook with Love brings together 150 of Pete Evans's favourite recipes from a lifelong love affair with food. This beautifully designed volume features chapters devoted to breakfast, lazy lunches, family feasts, the barbecue, seafood and more.

LOLs: best jokes for kids (OverDrive e-book), June Factor

Why do bulldogs have such flat noses? Because they keep chasing parked cars. What is a twip? A twip is what a wabbit takes when it wides on twains. A laugh-out-loud collection of jokes, riddles, rhymes and sayings from kids around Australia, first issued as June Factor's Juicy Jumping Joke Book.

Pole to Pole: one man, 20 million steps (OverDrive e-book), Pat Farmer

In a feat that ranks with the brave and inspiring deeds of Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Edmund Hillary and Jessica Watson, famed Australian ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer did what no human has ever done: run from the North Pole to South Pole to raise money for the Red Cross. Share in Farmer's triumphs, challenges and despair as he runs and runs and runs from one end of the earth to the other.

The U turn (OverDrive e-book), Conor Farren

The U-Turn is not just a book; it is a map that guides us on our journey from hurt to happiness. The author has combined the techniques of modern psychiatry and his own hard-won life lessons to create an inspiring, revelatory and interactive read.

Need machine (OverDrive e-book), Andrew Faulkner

Need Machine clamours through the brain like an unruly marching band. Both caustic and thoughtful, these poems offer a topography of modern life writ large in twitchy, neon splendour, in a voice as sure as a surgeon and as trustworthy as a rumour.

The wishing tree (OverDrive e-book), William Faulkner

A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many surprising and magical adventures.

Faerie tale (OverDrive e-book), Raymond E. Feist

A contemporary fantasy novel about the Hastings family who move from California to upstate New York into a ramshackle, old house in a deep wood and become involved in ancient, Celtic magic and occult horror when they are lured into the world of some luminous elfin beings.

Brotherhood of shades (OverDrive e-book), Dawn Finch

From the chaos of Dissolution rises a secret order, a Brotherhood formed to protect the world of the living from the world of the dead. Adam, a teenage boy living on the streets of London, knows nothing of the fantastic and precarious world that exists just beyond his reality — until he dies, cold and alone, aged 14.

Lust and found (OverDrive e-book), Julie Fison

Sienna likes five-star hotels and exercising her credit card in air-conditioned malls — not flea-ridden hostels and trekking through the jungle but when her brother Eddie starts sending strange messages from Cambodia, Sienna's mum convinces her to go check on him.

Tall, dark and distant (OverDrive e-book), Julie Fison

When Georgia meets Nik on her summer holiday, she is sure he's too good to be true: he's gorgeous, with god-like abs and an adorable English accent. Then she discovers that he is actually a member of an obscenely wealthy Russian family and he wants to get to know her better.

Diary of a taekwondo master (OverDrive e-book), Shamini Flint

Marcus is a Maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to… with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about taekwondo.

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet (OverDrive e-book), Jamie Ford

Set in the ethnic neighbourhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heart-warming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.

Head over high heels (OverDrive e-book), Kate Forster

She's not even interested in a modelling career - she wants to get into Medicine at university. Then she learns how much she could earn from a single photo shoot. She's always played it safe but then she meets Dan at the modelling agency, and Dan is all kinds of amazing. Maybe amazing enough to convince Lyssa that she should play it dangerous for once.

Unlucky break (OverDrive e-book), Kate Forster

Andie Powers has a one-way ticket to L.A.; the glamorous world of Hollywood, movie stars, palm trees and endless summer. She's desperate for a break after her mother's battle with cancer and her boyfriend's pathetic betrayal. Staying with her celebrity aunt Cece in Hollywood seems like the perfect solution.

Flashman (OverDrive e-book), George MacDonald Fraser

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents — horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all.

The bitter dawning (OverDrive e-book), Sara Fraser

Grainne MacDermott, dismissed from her position as lady's maid in England, returned home to western Ireland in February 1857 — to a land rent by hunger and rebellion. Amid the desolation she also found love. Con Shonley's involvement with the rebels would threaten his chances of happiness with Grainne, who envisaged a safe future far away across the Atlantic. But she would stop at nothing to help her man.

Modern art desserts: recipes for cakes, cookies, confections, and frozen treats based on iconic works of art (OverDrive e-book), Caitlin Freeman with Tara Duggan

Taking cues from works by Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, and Matisse, pastry chef Caitlin Freeman, of Miette bakery and Blue Bottle Coffee fame, creates a collection of uniquely delicious dessert recipes (with step-by-step assembly guides) that give readers all they need to make their own edible masterpieces.

Morris and the cat flap (OverDrive e-book), Vivian French

Morris is a lovable, greedy fat ginger kitten. In this story he is afraid of the new cat flap, but how will he get his food which is inside the house, when he is outside

The scent of lilacs (OverDrive e-book), Ann H Gabhart

Jocie Brooke has never wanted for love, despite the fact that she hardly remembers her mother. There's a reason why Aunt Love hides behind black dresses and a stoic countenance. Jocie's father David takes his morning walks not just for quiet solitude, but to wrestle with the past. Full of stories of lost loves and the trials of small-town living, this heart-warming novel explores the journey of faith and family.

One hundred shoes (OverDrive e-book), Charles Ghigna

Considers what kinds of shoes a centipede might wear and how he might shop for them.

The essential A-line: make 17 flirty skirts from 1 basic pattern (OverDrive e-book), Jona Giammalva

In this how-to book, The Essential A-line, accomplished seamstress Jona Giammalva shows you how to whip a chic A-line skirt in no time! It features a single pattern with easy variations to make 17 stylish skirts in a range of sizes from 0 — 20.

Dinner with a vampire (OverDrive e-book), Abigail Gibbs

Violet Lee is the sole living witness to a horrific pre-dawn mass murder in Trafalgar Square, London, but before she can alert the authorities, she is taken by the group of murderers, who, to her shock, are vampires. Now a pawn in a game of politics between humans and vampires, Violet begins to doubt her allegiance, especially when she falls for a vampire prince.

Here and there: collected travel writing (OverDrive e-book), A. A. Gill

From acclaimed writer AA Gill comes this collection of travel pieces selected from his monthly column in Australian Gourmet Traveller — 'AA Gill is away'. Witty, acerbic and often moving, these pieces are far from standard travel writing fare.

The bus driver (OverDrive e-book), Todd Harris Goldman

This is a clever counting book chronicling a typical day and route in a bus driver's life. Kids will love counting along from 1 to 10 as our bus driver picks up more and more passengers with different occupations from all walks of life — and then they can count down from 10 to 1 as the driver drops them off and winds down for the day.

Seemed like a good idea at the time (OverDrive e-book), David Goodwillie

David Goodwillie recounts the experiences he had after moving to New York in the hopes of launching his writing career, and falling into one implausible job after another.

Blood, bullets and blue stratos (OverDrive e-book), Tom Graham

When detective Sam Tyler was catapulted into the alien world of 1973, he could think of nothing but getting home but when at last Sam got home, he realized he'd left his heart back in the seventies amongst the fly-wing collars and pints of Skol. Now Sam is back in '73 for good, but is this the greatest mistake he's ever made? The creepy little girl from the TV test card seems to think so.

Unholy night (OverDrive e-book), Seth Grahame-Smith

Depicts the lives of the Three Kings of the Nativity, casting them as a set of infamous thieves who accidentally happen upon Joseph, Mary, and the newborn king and help them escape to Egypt.

Blood and circuses (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Astute, suave and divine, Phryne Fisher moves at flashing pace through this thrilling sixth adventure. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is feeling dull. Peeling off her wealth and privilege, Phryne takes a job as a trick horse-rider, wearing hand-me-down clothes and a new name. Someone seems determined to see the circus fail and Phryne must find out who that might be and why they want it badly enough to resort to poison, assault and murder.

Cooking the books (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant sleuth, is back and this time it's sinister events on the set of a television soap opera. Zany comedy.

Death at Victoria Dock (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Australian flapper Phryne Fisher avenges the death of a young man who dies in her arms after she and her car are shot at by two men. Although Phryne and members of her household are in danger from anarchists, they manage to foil a bank robbery while also solving the case of a missing young girl.

Death before wicket (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

The sassy Phryne Fisher sets the seamy side of Sydney alight in her tenth adventure. Phryne's plans begin to go awry when her maid discovers her thoroughly respectable sister has left her family for the murky nightlife of the Cross. And Phryne is definitely not the woman to say 'no' when two delightful young men come to her on bended knees, begging for her help in finding their friend innocent of theft.

The Green Mill murder (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Dancing divinely through the murder and mayhem of her fifth adventure, the elegant Phryne Fisher remains unflappable. In jazz-mad 1920s Melbourne, Phryne finds there are hidden perils in dancing the night away like murder, blackmail and young men who vanish.

Unnatural habits (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

Phryne is back in a thrilling mystery that takes her into dark convents and dank cellars in a frantic search for missing girls. Polly Kettle, a pushy, self-important Girl Reporter with ambition and no sense of self preservation, decides to investigate and promptly goes missing herself. It's time for Phryne and Dot to put a stop to this and find Polly Kettle before something quite irreparable happens to all of them.

Urn burial (OverDrive e-book), Kerry Greenwood

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of the Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful country surroundings mask danger: her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation around the house and the parlour maid is found strangled to death. Phryne's search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and of the limestone Buchan caves. But what will she find this time?

Destiny and Stardust (OverDrive e-book), Stacy Gregg

2-in-1 edition of the third and fourth books in the 'Pony Club Secrets' series: 'Destiny and the Wild Horses' and 'Stardust and the Daredevil Ponies'. 'Destiny and the Wild Horses': Issie and Blaze were hot favourites to win the Chevalier Point Pony Club dressage competition, but now they have to spend the summer on her aunt's farm instead! When Issie finds out Blaze can go with her — and she'll be helping to train horses for the movies — things start to look up.
'Stardust and the Daredevil Ponies': Issie has landed her dream job — handling horses on a real film set! Could this be Issie's chance for stardom?

Bad glass (OverDrive e-book), Richard E Gropp

One of the most hauntingly original dark fantasy debuts in years. Something has happened in Spokane. The military has evacuated the city and locked it down. Even so, disturbing rumours and images seep out, finding their way onto the Internet, spreading curiosity, scepticism, and panic. For what they show is or should be impossible: strange creatures that cannot exist, sudden disappearances that violate the laws of physics, human bodies fused with inanimate objects, trapped yet still half alive.

Ruby learns to swim (OverDrive e-book), Phillip Gwynne and Tamsin Ainslie.

Splash the water. Floaties on. Eyes wide open. Blow big bubbles. Legs straight out. Kicking hard. Ruby's swimming now! Ruby's swimming fast! A joyous learn-to-swim book for the very young.

The taste of apple seeds (OverDrive e-book), Katharina Hagena

For Iris, childhood memories are of long hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in her grandmother's garden, but now her grandmother is dead and, along with inheriting the property, Iris finds that she also inherits her family's darkest secrets. In the flicker between remembrance and forgetting, Iris recalls an enigmatic grandfather who went to war and came back a different man, the night her cousin Rosmarie fell through the conservatory roof and shattered her family's lives, and a moment of love that made all the trees in the orchard bloom over night.

Embroidered memories: 350 embroidery designs (OverDrive e-book), Brian Haggard

A rich compendium with hundreds of embroidery designs for quilting, wearables, gifts, and more. Full-size patterns (reduce or enlarge as needed for any project) for elegant lettering, flowers and vines, plus vintage and whimsical images can be traced or printed on transfer paper.

Harper Lee: To kill a mocking bird (OverDrive e-book), Andrew Haggerty

A biography of writer Harper Lee that describes her era, her major work — To Kill a Mockingbird — her life, and the legacy of her writing.

How to be interesting (OverDrive e-book), Jessica Hagy

Combining fresh and pithy life lessons, often just a sentence or two, with deceptively simple diagrams and graphs, this inspiring guide shows you how to lead a richer life.

Toby and the snowflakes (OverDrive e-book), Julie Halpern

Lonely after his best friend moves away, Toby finds new playmates in the talking snowflakes that begin to fall.

The mammoth book of tattoo art (OverDrive e-book), Lal Hardy

Contains over 700 tattoos in full colour by over 80 leading tattoo artists from the USA, UK, the rest of Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Growing up modern (OverDrive e-book), Allison Harris

Shows how anyone can make a child's quilt that will be cherished for years to come.

Runemarks (OverDrive e-book), Joanne Harris

Seven o'clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again… Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured rune mark on her hand — a symbol of the old gods and definitely cause for suspicion. For magic is dangerous. Or so everyone thinks. But Maddy enjoys working magic.

Every which way but dead (OverDrive e-book), Kim Harrison

Bounty hunter Rachel Morgan has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting the otherworldly attractions of a hot new vampire suitor, when she must make good on her deal with a powerful demon, coming to collect his due.

The Chicago way (OverDrive e-book), Michael T Harvey

Chicago PI Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived.

On the farm (OverDrive e-book), Roland Harvey

Uncle Kevin had a farm, A-E-I-O-U, and on that farm we had a holiday, A-E-I-O-U! With a moo moo here and an oink oink there, here a honk, there a quack, everywhere a neigh neigh. Uncle Kevin had a farm, A-E-I-O-U!

Slide (OverDrive e-book), Jill Hathaway

When Vee passes out she slides randomly into other people's heads and ends up seeing through their eyes. So when she finds herself in the head of a killer, standing over the body of a cheerleader, she's beyond freaked. Vee knows that this was no suicide. Struggling to understand her terrifying and unwanted 'gift', Vee is tangled in a web of secrets, lies and danger!

Ghost girl (OverDrive e-book), Torey L Hayden

Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked in her own private world of shadows. But nothing in Torey Hayden's experience had prepared her for the nightmare Jadie revealed to her when finally persuaded to break her self-imposed silence. This is an account of an extraordinary teacher's determination.

When we wake (OverDrive e-book), Karen Healey

In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl — playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.

The hero's guide to saving your kingdom (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Healy

Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their castles, Princes Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav stumble upon an evil plot that could endanger each of their kingdoms. Now it's up to them to triumph over their various shortcomings, take on trolls, bandits, dragons, witches, and other assorted terrors, and become the heroes no one ever thought they could be.

Introvert power: why your inner life is your hidden strength (OverDrive e-book), Laurie A. Helgoe

Shows readers how to use introversion not as a weakness but as a source of power.

Josiah's treasure (OverDrive e-book), Nancy Herriman

A feisty young female artist with a secret past battles to establish her own gallery in Gold Rush-era San Francisco.

The Damp House (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Hetreed

The best man (OverDrive e-book), Kristan Higgins

Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she's ready to return to her family's vineyard — the Blue Heron Winery — to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of red. If Faith can find a minute amidst all her family drama to stop and smell the rose, she just might find a reason to stay at Blue Heron…and finish that walk down the aisle.

Catch of the day (OverDrive e-book), Kristan Higgins

Maggie Beaumont's known for her bad romantic choices but romantic salvation has arrived in the form of handsome, if surly, fisherman Malone. It turns out there's a heart of gold underneath his barnacle-clad exterior. Will this catch of the day turn into the dish of a lifetime?

Mortality (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Hitchens

Mortality is the most meditative piece of writing Hitchens has ever produced; at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer WC etiquette, and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation of mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.

No one left to lie to: the triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Hitchens

In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions of liberals and conservatives alike of this highly divisive figure.

The trial of Henry Kissinger (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Hitchens

In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of Henry Kissinger, whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.

Horrible Harriet (OverDrive e-book), Leigh Hobbs

Horrible Harriet is one in a million. And maybe that's one too many.

Cities are good for you (OverDrive e-book), Leo Hollis

Upending long-held assumptions and challenging accepted wisdom, he explores: why cities can never be rational, organised places; how we can walk in a crowd without bumping into people, and if we can design places that make people want to kiss; whether we have the right solution to the problem of the slums; how ants, slime mould and traffic jams can make us rethink congestion.

Penny from heaven (OverDrive e-book), Jennifer L Holm

As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.

Wonder dogs (OverDrive e-book), Ben Holt

Wonder Dogs contains numerous amazing tales that demonstrate the astonishing bravery of some very heroic canines — from trained guide dogs to loved pets and homeless strays.

Making garden furniture from wood (OverDrive e-book), Anthony Hontoir

Using simplified woodworking techniques, this book covers fourteen pieces ranging from tables and chairs to bird houses and fencing: all are both useful and delightful additions to any garden.

Glittering images (OverDrive e-book), Susan Howatch

Charged by Canterbury with the spiritual monitoring of a wayward bishop, Dr. Charles Ashworth, a young, driven Anglican minister, encounters a genteel world whose deeply embedded apostasy forces him to confront his own inner demons.

The black Sultan (OverDrive e-book), L. Ron Hubbard

American Eddie Moran is about to be captured in Morocco by the French Foreign Legion when bullets start flying at two gentlemen walking right towards him. Saving the men, Eddie learns that one is the US vice-consul, but the other is the recently deposed Berber leader, El Zidan. When a friendship forms between them, Eddie escapes the French with Zidan's help, only to be captured later and taken to the Atlas mountain stronghold of the Black Sultan, the cruel usurper of El Zidan's throne.

The devil — with wings (OverDrive e-book), L. Ron Hubbard

He lies in wait: a man hunted by many, feared by all and controlled by none, if, indeed, he is a man at all. Meet the devil — with wings. From Shanghai to Vladivostok, the mere sight of this black-garbed white creature has caused heart failure among the soldiers of the Rising Sun.

The dive bomber (OverDrive e-book), L Ron Hubbard

Lucky Martin is a daredevil test pilot who's perfected the design for a new bomber plane that the Navy is sure to buy. Unfortunately for Lucky, hostile foreign powers are determined to see him fail so they can scoop up the plane's design for their own use. Following a string of "accidents" which nearly kill him, Lucky Martin becomes "Unlucky" Martin, making his future look very luckless indeed, unless he can stay alive to outwit the enemy.

I love New York: ingredients and recipes : a moment in New York cuisine (OverDrive e-book), Daniel Humm and Will Guidara.

Maddie on things (OverDrive e-book), Theron Humphrey

Maddie is a sweet-tempered coonhound who accompanied her owner, Theron, on a yearlong, cross-country trip while he worked on a photojournalism project. In his spare time, Theron took photos of Maddie doing what she does best: standing on things. Maddie on Things celebrates the strange talent of one special dog and will resonate with any dog lover who appreciates the quirky hearts (and extraordinary balance) of canines.

The 13th horseman: an Afterworlds novel (OverDrive e-book), Barry Hutchison

Drake is surprised to find three horsemen of the apocalypse playing snakes and ladders in his garden shed. He's even more surprised when they insist that he is one of them. They're missing a Horseman, having gone through several Deaths and they think that Drake is the boy for the job. At first he's reluctant to usher in Armageddon but does being in charge of Armageddon have to spell the end of the world?

Timeless interiors (OverDrive e-book), Kathryn M Ireland

From stateside town homes in New York, beach houses in the Hamptons and Malibu, and ranch homes in California to farmhouses in the English countryside and Southwest France, this collection of Kathryn Ireland's interiors moves up and down the sliding scale of formality.

Skin deep (OverDrive e-book), Laura Jarratt

After the car crash that leaves her best friend dead, Jenna is permanently scarred. She struggles to rebuild her life, but every stare in the street, every time she looks in the mirror, makes her want to retreat further from the world. Until she meets Ryan. As Jenna and Ryan grow closer, repercussions from the crash continue to reverberate through the community. And then a body is found.

My hundred lovers (OverDrive e-book), Susan Johnson

Lyrical and exquisite, My Hundred Lovers captures the sheer wonder of life, desire and love. A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on her days with one hundred scenes from a life adding up to a simple human truth. By turns humourous, sharp, haunting and wise, this is an original and exhilarating novel from one of Australia's premier writers.

Howl's moving castle (OverDrive e-book), Diana Wynne Jones

Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.

Vile visitors (OverDrive e-book), Diana Wynne Jones

Two hilarious stories from the bestselling and well-loved author Diana Wynne Jones, about the worst visitors in the world coming to stay. In Vile visitors, we meet Angus Flint and Chair Person the worst guests in the world. In Who got rid of Angus Flint? we meet a man so mean, he even insults the furniture! In Chair person, that old armchair with the broken crystal ball spilled on it transforms into the most annoying visitor ever.

Dickens (OverDrive e-book), Kaye Jones

Charles Dickens remains arguably Britain's most successful writer. Dickens: History in an Hour covers all the major facts and events surrounding Dickens's life; the poverty of his childhood, his experience in Warren's Blacking Factory, the evolution of his novels, his tours around America and Europe and his sometimes scandalous private life.

My life as an alphabet (OverDrive e-book), Barry Jonsberg

Introducing Candice Phee: twelve years old, hilariously honest and a little… odd. But she has a big heart, the very best of intentions and an unwavering determination to ensure everyone is happy. So she sets about trying to 'fix' all the problems of all the people (and pets) in her life.

Sins (OverDrive e-book), F. Sionil Jose

On his deathbed, a Filipino aristocrat confesses his sins and those of his family. A tale of political accommodation, from collaboration with Spanish colonisers, to bootlicking under the Americans, to running a bordello for Japanese invaders, all of which paid off handsomely.

Straw bale gardens (OverDrive e-book), Joel Karsten

Straw Bale Gardens teaches gardening in a way that isn't only new but is thoroughly innovative and revolutionary to home gardening. It solves every impediment today's home gardeners face: bad soil, weeds, a short growing season, watering problems, limited garden space, and even physical difficulty working at ground level.

S.C.U.M (OverDrive e-book), Danny Katz

It's just an ordinary day for Tom Zurbo-Goldblatt. The possibility of romance with his dream girl. Powerful friendships to forge. Wrongs to right. The ultimate test of survival against the Badass Ninjas of Stupidity of Death. And his first-ever sighting of a girl-pube. Who says you don't learn anything at school?

Book lover (OverDrive e-book), Jennifer Kaufman

Ever since their larger-than-life father wandered away Dora and her sister, Virginia, have clung to each other, enduring a childhood filled with literary pilgrimages instead of summer vacations. Somewhere along the way Virginia made the leap into the real world, but Dora isn't quite there yet. Now she's coping with a painful separation from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling inheritance, and attracted to a seductive book-seller who seems to embody all that literature has to offer — intelligent ideas, romance, and an escape from her problems.

The sound of the mountain (OverDrive e-book), Yasunari Kawabata

In his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.

On two feet and wings: one boy's amazing story of survival (OverDrive e-book), Abbas Kazerooni

Close to his tenth birthday, Abbas has to leave his parents and friends to escape Tehran. In the strange and often frightening city of Istanbul, Abbas has to grow up fast. Living alone for twelve weeks in a rundown hotel, he has to learn to live by his wits, and watch his back. Will he ever get his dream visa to England? This page-turning story about the courage of one small boy, based on true events, is as gripping as any novel.

Life in outer space (OverDrive e-book), Melissa Keil

Sam Kinnison is a geek, and he's totally fine with that. He has his horror movies, his nerdy friends, World of Warcraft, and until Princess Leia turns up in his bedroom, worry about girls he won't. Then Camilla Carter arrives on the scene. She's beautiful, friendly and completely irrelevant to his plan — except that Camilla has a plan of her own.

Nightrise (OverDrive e-book), Jim Kelly

Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by the police that his father has been killed in a car accident, his body incinerated in a fireball of burning petrol. It's impossible, because Dryden's father drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, thirty-five years before.

Ride (OverDrive e-book), Josh Kench

At his brother's wedding in 2002, 30-year-old Josh Kench sat with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other, and announced that he was going to do the Coast to Coast. His pronouncement was met with derision, but he's proved his doubters wrong. This is the story of how an ordinary bloke became an ultra-endurance athlete and decided to take on the world.

Janella's wholefood kitchen (OverDrive e-book), Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Good health starts in your kitchen and Janella Purcell, Gourmand-awarded nutritionist, naturopath and cook, shows you how easily and deliciously. With each recipe clearly marked as vegetarian, vegan, dairy free or gluten free, from soups to main courses, party foods to salads and desserts, this is a cookbook that will start you on the path to a healthy lifestyle.

Family (OverDrive e-book), Karen Kingsbury

In the wake of finding his firstborn son, John Baxter looks for a way to tell his other children the truth about a secret he's kept from them all their lives. At the same time, a sensational Hollywood trial brings Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart together again, this time in a very public way. In the midst of this crisis, the truth is clear for all of them — never in their lives has family been more important.

The Daughter's Walk (OverDrive e-book), Jane Kirkpatrick

The history of now (OverDrive e-book), Daniel M. Klein

Small, almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. Laced through a narrative of one recent year in Grandville's history are stories that reach back to a 17th century family in Rotterdam, and 18th century migration by a farmer's lonely son in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a 19th century underground railway journey by a gifted runaway slave.

Nothing serious (OverDrive e-book), Daniel M. Klein

Washed-up New York magazine writer Digby Maxwell's assignment is to make a small philosophy magazine relevant to contemporary culture. For starters, that requires several more tokes, very deep tokes. A wildly witty novel, Nothing serious takes serious potshots at Manhattan pop culture and academic small-mindedness, sexual obsessions and political correctness, twenty-first century alienation and philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Sartre.

Travels with Epicurus (OverDrive e-book), Daniel M Klein

Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.

Built-in social: essential social marketing practices for every small business (OverDrive e-book), Jeff Korhan

How to redesign your business for social relevance and profitable success. Marketing today is driven by the customer. Businesses that succeed today acknowledge that they are in shared relationships with customers, employees, and other influencers in the community — even competitors.

Kids' container gardening: year-round projects for inside and out (OverDrive e-book), Cindy Krezel

Provides an opportunity to develop a green thumb and experience the joys of gardening through seventeen projects that show how to create a year-round assortment of simple and fun container gardens.

A French restoration: La Maison d'Etre (OverDrive e-book), Clive Kristen and David Johnson

When David and Doris Johnson restored a French mini-chateau, they learnt new skills, solved the mysteries of septic drainage, and excavated not only the ancient foundations, but the chequered history of the house itself. And through all this, and through new friends, they also rediscovered themselves. French property expert, Clive Kristen, records their adventures.

The artist's daughter (OverDrive e-book), Alexandra Kuykendall

A poignant memoir of a woman's struggle to deal with the wounds left by her absent father and the realization of how that loss ultimately does — or does not — define her.

The heiress of winterwood (OverDrive e-book), Sarah Ladd

Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. When the child vanishes with little more than an ominous ransom note hinting at her whereabouts, Amelia and Graham are driven to test the boundaries of their love for this little one.

The Complete Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volumes 1 7 (OverDrive e-book), Louis L'Amour

Kingdom of the wicked (OverDrive e-book), Derek Landy

Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers, unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Kitana, along with her normal teenage friends, becomes infected, becomes powerful and becomes corrupted.

The maleficent seven: from the world of Skulduggery Pleasant (OverDrive e-book), Derek Landy

Tanith Low, now possessed by a revenant, recruits a gang of villains — many of whom will be familiar from previous Skulduggery adventures — in order to track down and steal the four God-Killer level weapons that could hurt Darquesse when she eventually emerges. When the villains around her are lying and scheming and plotting, Tanith needs to stay two steps ahead of her teammates and her enemies.

Fossil fury (OverDrive e-book), H I Larry

Dr Drastic is claiming he's cloned a dinosaur. Can Zac escape the flesh-eating plants in Drastic's BioDome to find out the truth?

Frozen fear (OverDrive e-book), H I Larry

Zac is sent to the Great Icy Pole to investigate suspicious activity in the area. It's a freezing, scary place. The area is so remote, if Zac misses his helicopter ride back, he'll be stuck there all winter.

Confessions of a window cleaner (OverDrive e-book), Timothy Lea

Timothy Lea is asked to be a window cleaner by his brother-in-law Sid, and he helps to satisfy all of his customers — in whatever way is necessary. Overwhelmed by the hospitality of his customers, Tim found it increasingly difficult to keep his mind on the job. Soon he longed for the peace and quiet of a steady relationship with his girl friend Elizabeth. But even the quiet and virginal Elizabeth was full of surprises!

Hell on Wheels (OverDrive e-book), Karen Leabo

The world is bigger now : an American journalist's release from captivity in North Korea : a remarkable story of faith, family, and forgiveness (OverDrive e-book), Euna Lee with Lisa Dickey.

For the first time, the author, a young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea, tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. This is the story of faith and love and a personal conviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours.

Handmade hostess: 12 imaginative party ideas for unforgettable entertaining : 37 sewing & craft projects, 12 desserts (OverDrive e-book), Kelly Lee-Creel and Rebecca Soder.

In this book, Kelly and Rebecca have captured the heart of social gatherings for special occasions — expressing your love for family and friends in the DIY spirit of decorating, baking, and sewing.

If you lived here, I'd know your name: news from small-town Alaska (OverDrive e-book), Heather Lende

Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air and only when the weather is good. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries and the social column for the local newspaper. Whether contemplating the mysterious death of eccentric Speedy Joe, who never took off his hat — not even for a haircut; observing the Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival; or ice skating in the shadow of glacier-studded mountains, Lende's warm, folksy style brings us inside her busy life.

Love at any cost (OverDrive e-book), Julie Lessman

Spunky Texas oil heiress Cassidy McClare, jilted of her fortune, pays a summer visit with her wealthy cousins in San Francisco to help her forget her heartache and meets handsome Jamie McKenna, a handsome pauper looking to marry well.

Manicpixiedreamgirl (OverDrive e-book), Tom Leveen

Seventeen-year-old Tyler Darcy looks back on his first three years of high school and considers the significant events involving Becky, his elusive "dream girl" who may be more troubled than he is willing to acknowledge.

Six earlier days (OverDrive e-book), David Levithan

The novel Every Day starts on Day 5994 of A's life. In this digital-only collection Six Earlier Days, Levithan gives readers a glimpse at a handful of the other 5993 stories yet to be told that inform how A navigates the complexities of a life lived anew each day.

Don't look back (OverDrive e-book), Laura Lippman

Tucked away in a leafy suburb of Washington, Eliza Benedict cherishes her quiet family life. But her world is shattered when her terrifying past comes back to haunt her.

Nini lost and found (OverDrive e-book), Anita Lobel

Nini Cat enjoys her outdoor adventure until she ventures too far and can't find her way home.

Call of the Wild and White Fang (OverDrive e-book), Jack London

Markets of Paris (OverDrive e-book), Dixon and Ruthanne Long.

The only complete guide to every street market and market district in Paris, with beautiful full colour photographs throughout. All the market information is supplemented by sidebars that round out the experience, including a listing of favourite wine bars, a visit to the wood oven in the cellar of the famous bakery Poilane, and strolls down the best shopping streets in Paris.

The Food Police (OverDrive e-book), Jayson Lusk

Birthdays for the dead (OverDrive e-book), Stuart MacBride

A character the tabloids call Birthday Boy is snatching girls and harming them in the latest from this very gritty Scottish author.

Close to the bone (OverDrive e-book), Stuart MacBride

The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more pressing things to worry about. When another body turns up, it looks as if the similarities between these murders and the plot of a bestselling novel are more than just a coincidence.

In falling snow (OverDrive e-book), Mary-Rose MacColl

Iris is getting old. A widow, her days are spent living quietly and worrying about her granddaughter, Grace, a headstrong young doctor. But one day an invitation comes for Iris to a reunion in France, where she served in a hospital during WWI. Determined to go, Iris is overcome by the memories of the past. A moving and uplifting novel about the small, unsung acts of heroism of which love makes us capable.

Scott Turow (OverDrive e-book), Andrew Macdonald

Scott Turow is a novelist, lawyer, and humanist who has fused his two passions, writing and the law, to create challenging novels that raise significant legal issues and test the justice of present laws.

Heather fell in the water (OverDrive e-book), Doug MacLeod

A hilarious story about a little girl who is afraid of the water, but ultimately makes friends with it — and learns to swim.

Deception (OverDrive e-book), Adrian Magson

When MI6 ask Harry Tate to trace Vanessa Tan, a lieutenant with the Royal Logistics Corps who failed to report for her return flight to Afghanistan, he instinctively feels it's a mission to avoid. But when he learns of the involvement of his former boss, Henry Paulton, the man who tried to have him killed, he agrees to take the job, and events soon take an unexpected turn…

Red Station (OverDrive e-book), Adrian Magson

What do MI5 bosses do when one of their officers is involved in a fatal shooting, opening the agency to the risk of coming under yet another media and political spotlight? They send him to an outpost known as Red Station. All they tell Harry is to keep his head down and do his job. What they don't tell him is that the Russians are coming… and that Harry won't be coming back.

Retribution (OverDrive e-book), Adrian Magson

Former MI5 officer Harry Tate is charged with finding the truth about a war atrocity that allegedly took place under his watch in Kosovo in 1999, but a skilful assassin is taking out potential witnesses before Harry can discover the facts

Tracers (OverDrive e-book), Adrian Magson

Hired by a government fixer to trace two separate runaways who have disappeared with large amounts of money, Harry is stunned when both runners are killed by an unknown assailant within minutes of being found. Despite severe misgivings, Harry is persuaded to trace a third runner, this one described as top-priority, a professor with important government connections.

From India: food, family & tradition (OverDrive e-book), Kumar Mahadevan

From the talented chef behind Sydney's most iconic Indian restaurants, Abhi's and Aki's, comes a spicy blend of contemporary food and authentic cooking. This book offers a full range of traditional curries, contemporary seafood dishes and interesting vegetarian meals.

Doodle quilting: over 120 continuous-line machine-quilting designs (OverDrive e-book), Cheryl Malkowski

Helps you gain confidence in your innate artistic ability to draw basic shapes, then you can learn how to put them together into over a hundred different all-over designs. In this guide, the focus is on selecting the right forms and lines that get you where you need to go — because sometimes the hardest part is figuring out where to quilt next.

The four corners of the sky (OverDrive e-book), Michael Malone

Twenty years is a long time to be without a father, and for Navy pilot Annie Peregrine-Goode the sky has become a home the earth has never been. So when her father calls out of the blue to ask for a dying wish both absurd and mysterious 'No' is the easiest of answers. Until she hears that the reward is the one thing she always wanted. Thus begins an enchanting novel that bursts with energy from the first pages, and sweeps you off on a journey of unforgettable characters, hilarious encounters, and haunting secrets.

A sea too far (OverDrive e-book), Hank Manley

15-year old Warren Early find himself transported through time to the days of Blackbeard the pirate.

Bring up the bodies (OverDrive e-book), Hilary Mantel

Delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?

The angel of the Gila (OverDrive e-book), Cora Marsland

The young heroine of Cora Marsland's The Angel of the Gila does everything she can to bring health, happiness, and strong values to a recently settled community in rural Arizona. She spends her days tirelessly engaged in service, teaching children and adults, nursing the sick back to health, imparting spiritual wisdom — and falling in love.

Sew a backyard adventure (OverDrive e-book), Susan Maw and Sally Bell.

Get your kids camping, playing, and exploring with 21 fun-to-make projects that provide countless hours of indoor and outdoor enjoyment for both boys and girls. Designing sisters Susan Maw and Sally Bell show you how to make everything you need to outfit a child to go adventuring: backpacks, teepees, sleeping bags, sun hats, cargo vests and shorts, outdoor-themed bedroom sets with quilts, and much more.

Ruby (OverDrive e-book), Marie Maxwell

After having lived peacefully in Cambridgeshire as an evacuee, 15-year-old Ruby Blakeley is bought back to reality when her bully of a brother Ray comes to take her home to East London. Unable to tackle her family, Ruby runs away and makes a new start for herself in Southend. But she soon finds she can’t escape her past.

Class captain (OverDrive e-book), Rowan McAuley

By the time Olivia arrives at school she has thought up a hundred different disasters and is starting to feel slightly sick. Maybe it isn't such a good idea to sleep-over at her best friend's house after all?

The convent (OverDrive e-book), Maureen McCarthy

'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going to happen.' 'To us or to the world?' I say. 'To you.' 'To me?' I laugh. 'Nothing ever happens to me, Stella.' 'But today it will.' 'Will it be good?' She looks thoughtful and then frowns. 'I, I don't know.' Warm and real, intense and provocative, Maureen McCarthy's The Convent shows in vivid detail how fate and the choices we make ripple and reverberate through time.

Murder actually (OverDrive e-book), Stephanie E. McCarthy

Romance novelist Elspeth Gray should be able to get on with her latest novel until, that is, a dead body turns up at her book signing, carefully arranged to give an observant detective plenty of not-so-subtle clues. Persuaded and bullied by her clue- and sleuth-mad best friend Julia (who bases her crime-solving techniques on detectives who are (a) fictional, and (b) cats), can Elspeth find the murderer, fend off the unwelcome attentions of her ex-husband and persuade her agent that she is not the stuff of which mystery novelists are made?

Terry: my daughter's life-and-death struggle with alcoholism (OverDrive e-book), George S. McGovern

The former United States Senator tells the story of his daughter Terry, her twin curses of alcoholism and depression, and the resulting connections with his political life, her children, and philosophies of life.

Phyllis Wong and the forgotten secrets of Mr Okyto (OverDrive e-book), Geoffrey McSkimming

A junior Jonathan Creek-style mystery in which the clever and resourceful young magician, Phyllis Wong, helps solve numerous crimes including the thefts of a missing diamond necklace and the most valuable painting ever to come to the city.

New York Fashion Week: the designers, the models, the fashions of the Bryant Park era (OverDrive e-book), Eila Mell

Capturing the most exciting moments, trends, and people from seventeen years under the tents of Bryant Park, New York Fashion Week gives industry professionals, style savvy consumers, and pop culture and celebrity fans an essential piece of fashion history.

The Borgias (OverDrive e-book), G. J. Meyer

Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait of the infamous Renaissance family and their storied milieu.

The temple of the golden pavilion (OverDrive e-book), Yukio Mishima

Mizoguchi has been mentally troubled since he witnessed his mother's infidelity in the presence of his dying father. Mizoguchi feels utterly abandoned and alone until he becomes a priest at Kinka-kuji, a famous Buddhist temple in Kyoto.

The silver brumby (OverDrive e-book), Elyne Mitchell

Thowra, the magnificent silver stallion, becomes king of the brumbies. But he must defend his herd from the mighty horse, The Brolga, in the most savage of struggles. That is not the only danger. Thowra needs all his speed and cunning to save his herd from capture by man.

Loose ends (OverDrive e-book), Susan Moody

A woman's unresolved past has disturbing implications for her future in this compelling psychological mystery.

Once tempted (OverDrive e-book), Laura Moore

Oldest son Ward Knowles feels the sprawling California ranch in his blood and now that the family business has expanded to include a popular resort, he's working harder than ever. Tess Casari has found sanctuary at Silver Creek, working as an assistant to Ward's mother, Adele. But passion and destiny are about to change the rules for two people who have stopped believing in the healing power of love.

Private Peaceful (OverDrive e-book), Michael Morpurgo

Told in the voice of Private Tommo Peaceful, the story follows twenty-four hours at the front, and captures his memories of his family and his village life — by no means as tranquil as it appeared.

Home sweet Rome (OverDrive e-book), Marissa Moss

To rescue her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Mira must travel to sixteenth-century Rome, where she befriends the painter Caravaggio and other artists and scientists under suspicion for being forward thinking individuals.

The Taliban Cricket Club (OverDrive e-book), T N (Timeri N ) Murari

A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants. Dangerous, feisty and funny totally engaging from the first page.

The town that drowned (OverDrive e-book), Riel Nason

Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast. Set in the 1960s, The Town That Drowned evokes the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill of first love, and the importance of having a place to call home.

The art of controversy: political cartoons and their enduring power (OverDrive e-book), Victor S. Navasky

A lavishly illustrated, witty, and learned look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse.

Strands of bronze and gold (OverDrive e-book), Jane Nickerson

When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram's beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation — on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting — from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi.

Unravelling (OverDrive e-book), Elizabeth Norris

Seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit head on by a truck and killed — and then somehow brought her back to life by Ben Michaels, resident stoner… Digging in her FBI agent father's files Janelle finds a mysterious device that seems to be counting down to something in 23 days and 10 hours time. That something might just be the end of the world. and if Janelle wants to stop it, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets — and keep from falling in love with him in the process…

And then life happens: a memoir (OverDrive e-book), Auma Obama

While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya. Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany, moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter there before returning to Africa. In this candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother.

First words: a parent's step-by-step guide to helping a child with speech and language delays (OverDrive e-book), Barbara Levine Offenbacher

This book gives parents the information they need to allow them to stimulate their child’s speech and language. Parents are given actual samples of how children with autism and other language delays respond differently to questions and how their responses can be redirected in order to start building connections. This book is not meant to replace professional intervention but it guides parents in becoming a para-speech partners in maximizing the stimulation their child receives so they develop skills for communicating.

Party origami (OverDrive e-book), Jessica Okui

Transform beautiful origami paper into covetable party accents! Origami enthusiasts and fans of pretty paper accents will enjoy folding chopstick rests, napkin rings, place settings, invitations, and more, in a range of colours and patterns.

All over creation (OverDrive e-book), Ruth L. Ozeki

Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho — heart of the potato-farming industry — since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend, and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in a brand new drama.

My year of meats (OverDrive e-book), Ruth L. Ozeki

Japanese-American Jane Tagaki-Little's salary is paid by the beef industry; her job is to travel across America filming attractive, robust housewives creating yummy (beef-based) recipes for Japanese television. My Year of Meats is issue-oriented yet entertaining, but a word of caution to burger lovers: reading this book may cause a change in your eating habits.

A tale for the time being (OverDrive e-book), Ruth L. Ozeki

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material — school bullies, depressed parents — but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami she finds a lunchbox washed up on the shore containing a diary.

Clarks: made to last : the story of Britain's best-known shoe firm (OverDrive e-book), Mark Palmer

Founded in 1825 by two brothers, Cyrus and James Clark, Clarks' reach extends to all corners of the globe and yet it remains a family-owned business rooted in its Quaker origins, unlike other Quaker firms like Cadburys, now part of US giant Kraft. This book tells the story behind an iconic British brand that is approaching its double century.

Aquatan (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Was Kai right to choose the Torpedo Cross Bow to battle the water beast? Will it work against toxic jellyfish? Will it be enough to take on a wave attack?

Aquaterros (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Something strange is happening in Beastium. A new mutant beast is filling the water land with rocks. Will Kai and BC be able to battle the new beast with their new gear? Will Kai battle well enough to prove himself a worthy Border Captain?

Chillterratan (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Beasts have escaped from the Outlands and are back in Beastium. Two beasts are fighting in the ice land. New beasts. Mega-mutants. Will Kai and his battle partner, Will Ritter, know how to battle these beasts and win?

Flamatoraq (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Things have changed again in Beastium. Beasts have appeared in the border-lands, New beasts. Combination beasts. Kai will have to lean quickly to battle these. Can he win against the fire-water-rock beast?

Infernix (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Can Kai get past the fire-fly splats? Will his Foam Blaster hose down the Flamaxagon fire beast's fire-ball attack?

Isolus (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Sludgia (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Stormasaurix (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Something strange is happening in Beastium. There is a dust storm in the wind land and a new mutant beast. Will Kai and BC be able to battle the new beast with their new gear? Will Kai battle well enough to prove himself a worthy Border Captain?

Tempesta (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Terradon (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Terraserpix (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Only a wall divides Earth from Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth.

Torlavasaur (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Beasts have escaped from the Outlands and are back in Beastium. Two beasts are fighting in the fire land. New beasts. Mega-mutants. Will Kai and his battle partner, Jay Armstrong, know how to battle these beasts and win?

Tornados (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Volcan (OverDrive e-book), Mac Park

Endal (OverDrive e-book), Allen Parton

The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again. Not content with learning over 200 commands to help Allen complete everyday tasks like getting dressed and going out to the shops in his wheelchair, Endal gave Allen the ability to start living again, and to become a husband and father again in his own special way.

Forgotten (OverDrive e-book), Cat Patrick

Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture.

Revived (OverDrive e-book), Cat Patrick

Daisy is a test subject for a government super drug called Revive, which brings people back from the dead. Each time she is revived, Daisy has to move cities and change her identity to avoid suspicion. Daisy has always gotten a thrill out of cheating death, but her latest move has come with unexpected complications: a new best friend, and a very cute new crush who is taking a special interest in her…

Blogging and tweeting without getting sued (OverDrive e-book), Mark Pearson

In this handy guide, media law expert Mark Pearson explains how you can get your message across online without landing yourself in legal trouble. In straightforward language, he explains what everyone writing online needs to know about reputation, privacy, secrets, bigotry, national security, copyright and false advertising.

Big Nate. Game on! (OverDrive e-book), Lincoln Peirce

To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky 'tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents

Blind delusion (OverDrive e-book), Dorothy Phaire

Things are not what they appear to be in this multi-layered psychological thriller of murder, obsession, and romance where a lonely clinical psychologist realizes it can be more frightening to reveal her soul than to face death.

Between the lines (OverDrive e-book), Jodi Picoult

Delilah hates school as much as she loves books. If anyone knew how many times she has read and re-read the sweet little fairy tale she found in the library, especially the popular kids, she'd be sent to social Siberia forever. To Delilah, though, this fairy tale is more than just words on the page - it feels as if there's something deeper going on. And one day, Delilah finds out there is.

The further adventures of an idiot abroad (OverDrive e-book), Karl Pilkington

Taking the Bucket List of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' as his starting point, Karl combines brilliant stories from his recent adventures to Alaska, Siberia and beyond with entertaining, highly opinionated views on what other people aspire to do with their lives.

An idiot abroad: the travel diaries of Karl Pilkington (OverDrive e-book), Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington isn’t keen on travelling. So what happened when he was convinced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to go on an epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the World? Travel broadens the mind, right? You’d think so…

Across the years (OverDrive e-book), Eleanor H. Porter

A collection of charming and insightful short stories from the pen of author Eleanor H. Porter, best known for the widely acclaimed novel Pollyanna.

At my grandmother's table: heartwarming stories and cherished recipes from the South (OverDrive e-book), Faye Porter

The Clover House (OverDrive e-book), Henriette Lazaridis Power

Zadie Smith (OverDrive e-book), Tracey Lorraine Walters

Provides a brief biography of Zadie Smith and in-depth analysis of the novels, short stories, and other works she has written.

River of dust (OverDrive e-book), Virginia Pye

On the windswept plains of north-western China, Mongol bandits swoop down upon an American missionary couple and steal their small child. With their Christian beliefs sorely tested, their concept of fate expanded, and their physical health rapidly deteriorating, the Reverend and Grace may finally discover an understanding between them that is greater than the vast distance they have come.

Burning bright (OverDrive e-book), Ron Rash

Jacob and Edna have fallen on hard times. They haven't lost everything the way others have, but they have lost enough. When one of their hens stops laying eggs, it seems like the final straw. Jacob is determined to solve the mystery. What he discovers is as heartbreaking as it is revelatory.

The cove (OverDrive e-book), Ron Rash

In their little cabin set in the shadow of a deep cove, Laurel Shelton and her brother Hank have built a home. One day the course of both their lives seems altered when Laurel happens upon a stranger hiding among the trees. But as soon as the dark cloud hanging over the cove finally begins to lift, a secret is uncovered that threatens to shatter their newly found happiness. A breathtaking, lyrical novel with a profoundly moving love story at its heart, The Cove confirms Ron Rash as a masterful novelist at the height of his powers.

Nothing gold can stay (OverDrive e-book), Ron Rash

From Ron Rash, PEN Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear spanning the Civil War to the present day.

One foot in Eden (OverDrive e-book), Ron Rash

Rash's moody, potent slice of Southern gothic fiction centres on a murder and its devastating effect on a small Appalachian town in the 1950s. When Holland Winchester, local troublemaker in tiny Seneca, S.C., vanishes without a trace, it's up to town sheriff and WWII veteran Will Alexander to search for answers.

Serena (OverDrive e-book), Ron Rash

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains — but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Rash's masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a riveting novel that, at its core, tells of love both honoured and betrayed.

Up above and down below (OverDrive e-book), Sue Redding

Illustrations and rhyming text reveal events happening in varied environments, from an icy sea to a blistering desert, while very different things occur down below.

Aldous Huxley: Brave new world (OverDrive e-book), Raychel Haugrud Reiff

A biography of writer Aldous Huxley that describes his era, his major work — Brave New World — his life, and the legacy of his writing.

William Golding: Lord of the flies (OverDrive e-book), Raychel Haugrud Reiff

"A biography of writer William Golding that describes his era, his major work — Lord of the Flies — his life, and the legacy of his writing.

Gospel of Freedom (OverDrive e-book), Jonathan Rieder

The Essential Writings of Rousseau (OverDrive e-book), Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bruce the Brachiosaurus (OverDrive e-book), Jeannette Rowe

Bright and bold with simple facts presented in a fun and light-hearted way, this series has been specially crafted to entertain the preschooler who is fascinated by the prehistoric world. Most kids catch Dinosauritis soothe their fever with Jeannette Rowe's vivid picture books that combine fun facts, jokes and games.

Rex the Tyrannosaurus (OverDrive e-book), Jeannette Rowe

Bright and bold with simple facts presented in a fun and light-hearted way, this series has been specially crafted to entertain the preschooler who is fascinated by the prehistoric world. Most kids catch Dinosauritis soothe their fever with Jeannette Rowe's vivid picture books that combine facts with fun.

Tip the Triceratops (OverDrive e-book), Jeannette Rowe

Bright and bold with simple facts presented in a fun and light-hearted way, this series has been specially crafted to entertain the preschooler who is fascinated by the prehistoric world. Most kids catch Dinosauritis soothe their fever with Jeannette Rowe's vivid picture books that combine fun facts, jokes and games.

Tracy the Pterodactyl (OverDrive e-book), Jeannette Rowe

Bright and bold with simple facts presented in a fun and light-hearted way, this series has been specially crafted to entertain the preschooler who is fascinated by the prehistoric world. Most kids catch Dinosauritis soothe their fever with Jeannette Rowe's vivid picture books that combine fun facts, jokes and games.

The path to the lake (OverDrive e-book), Susan Sallis

Viv's marriage to David was not a conventional one, but when he died — in an accident for which she blamed herself — it was as if her whole world had collapsed around her. She escaped by running, mainly around the nearby lake, which was once a popular place of recreation but was now desolate and deserted. It became both her refuge and her dread. But through the misery, she made some unexpected friends: a couple in the village whose family needed her as much as she needed them. And gradually, as a new life opened up, she was able confront the terrible secrets that had haunted her and which could now be laid to rest.

Rachel's secret (OverDrive e-book), Susan Sallis

In 1943 two schoolgirls, Rachel and Meriel, best friends in the Gloucestershire city where they have grown up, amuse themselves by tracking down imaginary German spies. It all seems a harmless way of whiling away the long school holidays, until their game turns into a frightening reality, the consequences of which affect their whole lives.

The well at the end of the world (OverDrive e-book), Robert D. San Souci

In this fairy tale, loosely based on English and Scottish lore, feisty Princess Rosamond, who prefers good books to good looks, risks her throne and all her wealth to save her father's life.

Fox 8 (OverDrive e-book), George Saunders

Your child's health: the parents' one-stop reference guide to symptoms, emergencies, common illnesses, behavior problems, healthy development (OverDrive e-book), Barton D. Schmitt

Great ANZAC stories: the men and women who created the digger legend (OverDrive e-book), Graham Seal

Stories of heroism, suffering and endurance — and also humour — from the main wars in which Australians have fought.

The new Persian kitchen (OverDrive e-book), Louisa Shafia

In The New Persian Kitchen, chef Louisa Shafia explores her Iranian heritage by reimagining classic Persian recipes from a fresh, vegetable-focused perspective. These vibrant recipes demystify Persian ingredients like rose petals, dried limes, tamarind, and sumac, while offering surprising preparations for familiar foods such as beets, carrots, mint, and yogurt for the busy, health-conscious cook.

Nate the Great and the monster mess (OverDrive e-book), Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate and his dog Sludge are determined to find the recipe for his mother's monster cookies.

Nate the Great and the mushy Valentine (OverDrive e-book), Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate the Great investigates two cases that may be connected, involving a missing Valentine and a Valentine that came from nowhere.

Nate the Great and the pillowcase (OverDrive e-book), Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nate the Great investigates the disappearance of a homemade pillowcase belonging to Rosamond's cat Big Hex.

Apron anxiety (OverDrive e-book), Alyssa Shelasky

Apron Anxiety is the hilarious and heartfelt memoir of quintessential city girl Alyssa Shelasky and her crazy, complicated love affair with the kitchen. Three months after dating her TV-chef crush, celebrity journalist Alyssa Shelasky left her highly social life in New York City to live with him in D.C. But what followed was no fairy tale: chef hours are tough on a relationship.

Children of liberty (OverDrive e-book), Paullina Simons

At the turn of the century and the dawning of the modern world, Gina from Belpasso comes to Boston's Freedom Docks to find a new and better life, and meets Harry Barrington, who is searching for his. As America races headlong into the future, much will be lost and much will be gained for Gina and Harry, whose ill-fated love story will break your heart.

Eating for England (OverDrive e-book), Nigel Slater

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater's multi-award-winning food memoir 'Toast', this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are The British at table.

Great Kiwi firsts (OverDrive e-book), Astral Sligo

"Our fern may be silver but we Kiwis love to take that gold medal spot. First to give women the vote, first to climb Mount Everest, first to split the atom. Great Kiwi firsts combines the great, the good and the just plain crazy in a compendium of Kiwi ingenuity and inspiration with just a touch of oddball" — Publisher information.

Geek girl (OverDrive e-book), Holly Smale

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek." Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. As her old life starts to fall apart, will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything?

Heart murmurs (OverDrive e-book), R. R. Smythe

After receiving a heart transplant, Mia Templeton's personality is altered — once a quiet doormat, she's now inexplicably flippant, and confident. And her unexplained longing for the new boy at school, Morgan Kelley, is borderline obsessive. Mia and Morgan enter the world of a secret Literary Society — and are drafted to help bring a rogue Literary giant to justice, solve the mystery of her heart donor, the the real fate of Beth from Little Women.

Who could that be at this hour? (OverDrive e-book), Lemony Snicket

Author Lemony Snicket is a broken man, wracked with misery and despair as a result of writing A Series Of Unfortunate Events. He spends his days wandering the countryside weeping and moaning, and his evenings eating hastily-prepared meals. But what was he like when he was thirteen years old?

One pan, two plates (OverDrive e-book), Carla Snyder

With an emphasis on reducing prep time and the usual sinkful of dishes, cooking instructor Carla Snyder serves up the ideal couple's guide to simple, complete, and truly delicious meals that can be made in one skillet, in less than 60 minutes.

The Golden Step (OverDrive e-book), Christopher Somerville

First light (OverDrive e-book), Rebecca Stead

When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.

Liar & spy (OverDrive e-book), Rebecca Stead

When Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy club recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only friend?

When you reach me (OverDrive e-book), Rebecca Stead

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

Billy (OverDrive e-book), Pamela Stephenson

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years — Pamela Stephenson.

The seven rivers (OverDrive e-book), Douglas Stewart

Bringing a poet's eye, a sense of whimsy and a generosity of spirit to this classic and celebratory account of fly-fishing in Australia and New Zealand, Stewart proves that even the ones that got away are worth writing about.

How to raise selfless kids in a self-centered world (OverDrive e-book), Dave Stone

Dave Stone shares his practical, conversational, and humorous approach to the challenges of building a strong spiritual foundation for the family.

Breaking up with depression: the superchick's guide to overcoming the blues (OverDrive e-book), Michelle Summers

Have you ever been in a relationship that you know is not good for you? Maybe you stay in it simply because you are comfortable, you are afraid of change, you don't have the motivation or support from others, or you simply don't believe there is something better. Well I am here to tell you that your motivation, support, and encouragement are here and there is something better! We are going to learn what depression is and how to overcome it.

Frozen solid (OverDrive e-book), James M. Tabor

A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus. Having just arrived at the research station at the earth's southernmost tip, returning hero Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action.

The true story of Ned Kelly's last stand: new revelations unearthed about the bloody siege at Glenrowan (OverDrive e-book), Paul Terry

When Ned Kelly fought his Last Stand at Glenrowan, he made his suit of armour and a tiny bush pub part of Australian folklore.

The grotto under the tree (OverDrive e-book), John A. Theo

Sebastian and Sara mistakenly descend into a mystical land where elves, mermaids, gnomes and other mythological creatures live. The two discover they have stumbled into an ancient battle between these fair folk and evil creatures called the Kylo.

50 best plants on the planet: the most nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables, in 150 delicious recipes (OverDrive e-book), Cathy Thomas

This encyclopaedic guide to cooking the 50 most nutritious fruits and vegetables in the world comes from Melissa's Produce, the largest supplier of specialty produce in the United States.

Death on a Pale Horse (OverDrive e-book), Donald Thomas

The boy under the table (OverDrive e-book), Nicole Trope

Tina is a scared young woman: forced into prostitution to survive, one cold night she breaks all her rules by agreeing to go home with a customer. What she finds in his house will change her life forever. Sarah and Doug are frozen in grief on their farm in Cootamundra, unable to come to terms with the tragedy that has taken over their lives. Pete is the local police sergeant, powerless to stop the slow death of a treasured local family, knowing the odds of their prayers being answered.

Buchanan dying: a play (OverDrive e-book), John Updike

In a play meant to be read, Buchanan's (fifteenth President of the United States, 1857-1861) political and private lives are represented as aspects of his spiritual life, whose crowning, condensing act is the act of dying. A wide-ranging afterword rounds out the dramatic portrait of one of America's lesser known, and least appreciated, leaders.

Broken soup (OverDrive e-book), Jenny Valentine

A photographic negative and two surprising new friends become the catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old Rowan struggles to keep her family and her life together after her brother's death.

Finding Violet Park (OverDrive e-book), Jenny Valentine

When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.

Beguiling Bridget (OverDrive e-book), Rachel Van Dyken and Leah Sanders.

Driven to distraction by the redhead across the room, Anthony Benson barely hears the terms of his brother's challenge before agreeing to them.

Taming Wilde (OverDrive e-book), Rachel Van Dyken and Leah Sanders.

Sir Colin Wilde's broken heart has sent him over the edge and he is convinced the only way to get over the loss of Lady Gemma is to lose himself in debauchery.

No Shortcuts to the Top: climbing the world's 14 highest peaks (OverDrive e-book), Ed Viesturs with David Roberts.

For eighteen year Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

Catch your death (OverDrive e-book), Louise Voss

Twenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at a research centre where she fell in love with a handsome young doctor, Stephen, but her stay ended in his tragic death. Now Kate is back in England and on the run with her young son, this time from her vile husband. But a chance encounter sets her on a terrifying path of discovery. What really happened at the Cold Research Unit two decades ago?

Antarctica: an intimate portrait of the world's most mysterious continent (OverDrive e-book), Gabrielle Walker

This is a full and intimate portrait of the most mysterious continent on earth, and how it holds the key to all our futures.

Ratburger (OverDrive e-book), David Walliams

The story of a little girl called Zoe. Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery — mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt's Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it?

Chelsea wives (OverDrive e-book), Anna-Louise Weatherley

This is Desperate Housewives meets First Wives Club set in the glamorous borough of Chelsea. Set against a backdrop of exotic locations, designer boutiques and London's high society scene, these Chelsea Wives are about to join forces and risk it all for the ultimate revenge?

Growing up in a Nyonya kitchen (OverDrive e-book), Sharon Wee

With comprehensive chapters dedicated to documenting cooking utensils, essential ingredients, the Nonya's agak agak (estimating) philosophy, as well as Chinese New Year and other festive dishes, baked goods and Nonya kuehs, this is a volume to read and treasure for anyone looking for an in-depth understanding of the Peranakan (and Singapore) food heritage.

Partials (OverDrive e-book), Dan Wells

Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponised virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. Our time is running out. A pulse-pounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question — one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.

The beggar bride (OverDrive e-book), Gillian White

Angela Harper's life has never been simple. That is, until Ange concocts a lie that will change their lives. Her con targets the wealthy, twice-divorced businessman Fabian Ormerod, whom, with the approval of her husband, she is determined to trick into a very advantageous marriage — with a quick divorce to follow.

Beyond evil (OverDrive e-book), Neil White

DI Sheldon Brown has never recovered from finding the body of Alice Kenyon brutally murdered, naked and abandoned in a pool. And he's never stopped pursuing his main suspect, hellraiser and lottery winner Billy Privett either. So when Billy is found dead and, what's more, viciously dissected, DI Brown's obsession is rekindled.

Candy making for kids (OverDrive e-book), Courtney Dial Whitmore

Candy Making for Kids is a creative and fun book full of easy-to-follow candy recipes for kids.

Congo dawn (OverDrive e-book), Jeanette Windle

Former Marine lieutenant Robin Duncan has never had trouble telling good guys from bad. Stationed in the Congo jungle, assigned to a security team charged with tracking down an insurgent killer, she must figure out who she can trust so that she can protect the innocent Congolese people.

Daughter of Jerusalem (OverDrive e-book), Joan Wolf

She was a widow, a businesswoman, an adulteress. In her lifetime, she knew murder, prejudice, and faith. She transformed from a Jewish girl longing for family to one of the closest friends of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. Her name was Mary Magdalene.

Shipwrecks (OverDrive e-book), Akira Yoshimura

One day when a ship founders on the rocks Isaku learns that its cargo is far deadlier than could ever be imagined. Shipwrecks, the first novel by the great Japanese writer Yoshimura to be translated into English, is a stunningly powerful, Gothic tale of fate and retribution.

Rosy George's convention conundrum (OverDrive e-book), P. J. Young

Twenty nine-year old Londoner Rosy dreams of writing like Pinter, marrying before thirty and never leaving London. But although fiancé David's MBA means just that, her parents' village of Lytton holds surprising attractions such as theatre and sexy schoolteacher Angus.

To be honest (OverDrive e-book), P. J. Young

When a rare mammatus cloud over the Globe puts Lisi in her delectable English teacher Miss Mint's shoes, living the ultimate lie proves irresistible. There's just one catch: Miss Mint wants her life back and she won't get it until Lisi starts telling the truth.

Essex girls (OverDrive e-book), Laura Ziepe

When Jade finds Tom’s been cheating she heads home: to Essex. Reunited with her best mates Kelly and Lisa, even a night out at The Sugar Hut isn’t enough to put a smile back on her face. So they hatch a plan to get away from it all, to a place so ream it’s unreal — Marbella.